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RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS Note: The International Journal of Comparative Sociology invites communications in the form of short articles and reports about ongoing research, not exceeding 5,000 words, both in the empirical and theoretical fields. EDITOR Domestic Integration and Suicide in 21 Nations, 1950-1985 DAVID LESTER* ABSTRACT A study of the impact of domestic integration (marriage, birth and divorce rates) on suicide in twenty-one nations indicated that marriage and divorce rates were associated with suicide rates in the majority of nations as predicted by Durkheim. Birth rates, however, were not consistently associated with suicide rates in the sample of nations. The implications of these results were discussed. Durkheim (1897), in his seminal sociological theory of suicide, argued that two broad social characteristics affected the social suicide rate: the degree of social integra- tion (that is, the degree to which people are bound together in social networks) and the degree of social regulation (that is, the degree to which people have their desires and emotions controlled by social norms). In particular, Durkheim hypothesized that marriage and children increased social integration and, therefore, societies with higher marriage and birth rates should have lower suicide rates. Durkheim also hypothesized that divorce decreased social
International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1994
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