Resource Tag: SOCIAL STRUCTURE

This chapter presents a short summary of what is known (& not known, in a scientific way) about suicide by Greenlandic youth, & situates the present youth suicide situation in Greenland in historical & circumpolar perspective. (12 notes, 9 refs.) Contact us for a copy of this article, or view online at https://alaskaindigenous.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/hicks-sucide-in-greenland.pdf

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This study was conducted to better understand primary care providers’ experience of treating males with depression. A grounded theory approach explored the contradiction that males in the United States die by suicide four times as often as females, yet females are diagnosed with depression twice as often as males. The study is guided by the […]

This study analysed whether white suicide rates are lower where civic participation is strong & where a strong social institutional structure exists. Negative binominal regression analyses of race/sex/age disaggregated suicide regressed on indices of civic community are conducted for a sample of more than 1400 American nonmetropolitan counties. White male & female suicide rates are […]

Focussing on the nineteenth century, this article will show how the crime of instigating suicide emerged as part of an (inadequate) effort to correct the abuses of serfdom in Russia, but would, by the 1860s, become a (likewise inadquate) tool to regulate familial relations – specifically, the abuse of wives & children. In both periods, […]

Drawing on the civil society & civic community literatures, this study applies the theory of social capital to the study of suicide. Macro-level data are analyzed to determine the relationship between the social capital of an area & the prevalence of suicide. Negative binomial regression is used to examine American counties of 100,000 residents or […]

While rape is a known risk factor for suicidality in both men & women, it has received relatively little attention in suicidology. There is also a relative lack of attention to the extent to which & how rape-suicide has been covered in various art forms. It is clear that one portrayal of rape-suicide, that of […]

This paper addresses the personal consequences attendant upon the post-Thatcher neo-liberal restructuring of the British economy. Its focus is upon the way that increased economic insecurity created a range of personally encountered problems, which constitute the most immediate sense of being-in-a-world so disclosed. It tries to cast light upon the increased anonymous violence that is […]

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This discussion paper acknowledges the dearth of information relating to bereavement support training & models of postvention suitable for those supporting bereaved indigenous families & communities in Australia. Some issues & models developed to address the gaps in training & to identify the needs of Indigenous people experiencing bereavement, traumatic grief, & loss are outlined. […]

The present study examined the relationship between idiocentrism, allocentrism, psychological well-being & suicide ideation among 283 American college students & 343 Chinese college students. As predicted, high levels of suicide ideation were correlated with more idiocentrism, but only for women. Allocentrism was related to lower levels of suicide ideation in both cultures, but the relationship […]

This study examines the effects of religiosity, superstition, & perceived gender inequality among Chinese women on the degree of their suicide intent. A structured interview was conducted with a consecutive sample of serious attempters hospitalized immediately after the attempt in the Dalian areas. Both univariate analyses & the multiple regression model have found that the […]

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Suicide has traditionally been viewed as a deviant act because it contributes to a climate in which individual life is devalued. Yet, as the author argues in this chapter, the line between suicide that is viewed as being justified (e.g. a person with a terminal illness) & suicide that is for the wrong reasons (e.g. […]

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This study tested for associations between psychiatrist availability, social disintegration, & suicide rates. Data were utilized from the 2002 Area Resource File on 3,080 American counties. Suicide rates were averaged over 6 years, 1990-1995. Poisson & negative binomial regression models were used to assess the association of psychiatrist availability & suicide rate ratios. Availability of […]

This anthropological study is on the Palawan culture & society in the southern Philippines. Part One discusses the Kulbi-Kenipaqan River basin & its people; material culture & the symbolic structure of everyday life; social organization, the spiritual world of the Kulbi people; & personhood, emotions, & moral values. Part Two includes chapters on Sumling’s death, […]

In this presentation, a study investigating the relationship between suicide rates & social environments in various parts of Helsinki in 1970-1971 was discussed. Results supported the hypotheses that the suicide rate is inversely related to the degree of integration of the community & that integrative changes tend to decrease & disintegrative changes to increase suicides.

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The aim of this essay is to present an overview of some of the topics & issues which are present in the interaction of suicide & culture. Topics discussed include: societal & cultural suicide rates; culture & the individual suicide; the impact of a changing culture; the assumption of cultural invariability; subcultures; gender, class, & […]

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