[Suicide, a social fact]

Christian Baudelot

doi:10.1016/j.soin.2017.02.004

[Suicide, a social fact]

Soins. 2017 Apr;62(814):26-29. doi: 10.1016/j.soin.2017.02.004.

[Article in French]

Author

Christian Baudelot¹

Affiliation

¹ ENS, UMR 8097 CMH, 48, boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 28411659
DOI: 10.1016/j.soin.2017.02.004

Abstract

Treating suicide as a social fact means disregarding its individual and dramatic dimensions. Sociologists do not reason on the basis of specific cases but by studying the variations, in space and time, of suicide rates. Their contribution relates essentially to a renewed perspective on society: suicide is in fact a very accurate indicator of the intensity and quality of the bonds which unite or isolate individuals in a society.

Keywords: famille; family; lien social; risk; risque; social bond; sociologie; sociology; statistics; statistique; suicide.

MeSH terms

Age Factors
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Social Isolation
Socioeconomic Factors
Sociological Factors*
Suicide* / ethnology
Suicide* / psychology
Suicide* / statistics & numerical data