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Suicide
Durkheim mentions religion as a factor in the structure of a cohesive
societal institution. A more laid-back attitude in relation to community
would contribute to a lessened coercive power in relation to defining moral
changes and obeying the rules. Include too the shifting attitude in most
school systems. Subscribing to a focus on curriculum over a holistic
education, which formerly included the teaching of, and rewards for,
academic, spiritual/moral, social, and the emotional component of one's
development has declined. This was a formerly well-defined cohesive group
that by definition was less likely to resort to suicide. The changing
attitude of this institution necessarily lessens some of the properties of
the social structure thereby increasing the probability of suicide,
especially in North America. When factoring in religion and the withdrawal
of religion in the schools, an almost insistence that religion is a taboo
subject can only lend itself as confusion within a system that has withdrawn
support on a common ground, which leaves many children ignorant of the rules
and some confused as to the lack of support of rules learned in the family
but not reinforced in an institution that presents itself as vital to the
development of a child and an architect of their overall ability to survive,
in fact achieve, on their own because of the formation of their whole self,
within this system.
When one factors in the call to independence that is espoused to today's
youth, this aspect of development and cohesion with a group or groups that
teach and support a form of dependence on one's goodness, competence, and
intrinsic value, without a common and overall commitment to the
above-mentioned, then it would be arguable that suicide is, in fact, not a
particular message about the reaction of types of persons to certain types
of situations but is, a 'social fact' in relation to a breakdown of societal
institutions that lack the 'necessary' cohesion that will keep its' members
safe.
*research on Durkheim garnered from Lewis A Coser, State University of New
York at Stony Brook "Masters of Sociological Thought" 2nd ed. Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, Inc.
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