TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Anomic suicide: A Durkheimian analysis of European normlessness
JO  - Sociological spectrum
A1  - Hodwitz, O.
A1  - Frey, K.
SP  - 236
EP  - 254
VL  - 36
IS  - 4
N2  - According to Durkheim (1897), periods of economic, social, or political change result in a state of anomie or normlessness. Anomic periods lead to deregulation of desires and suffering. Durkheim hypothesized that, as an expression of suffering, societies and groups experience an increase in suicide rates. This paper provides two formal tests of Durkheim's (1897) theory of anomie - a behavioral aggregate analysis and an attitudinal individual-level analysis - on the backdrop of the 2008 economic crash. The first analysis assesses the relationship between unemployment and suicide in the European Union between 2000 and 2010. <br><br>RESULTS provide conditional support for Durkheim's theory: suicide rates increased following the crash and decreased once economic stability resumed in 2010 for males only. A second attitudinal analysis identified factors contributing to the gendered relationship between anomie and suicide. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that traditional Durkheimian regulatory mechanisms, such as marriage and divorce, contributed to the gender-specific results. © 2016, Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0273-2173
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02732173.2016.1148652
ID  - ref1
ER  -