Examples Of Anomic Suicide

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Therefore, people set impossible objectives which produce a continuous feeling of displeasure and perhaps even hopelessness. Conditions of anomie can be produced by changes in society. Economic changes, such as economic downturns or price increases, cause people to reconsider their necessities and amend appropriately (Durkheim, 1951). This transformation can bring about an inner struggle concerning what an individual can pay for opposed to what one wants. Job-related changes are another type of economic change; it disturbs the person in a similar manner and consequently, can also produce anomie. Becoming out of work is a key example of this anomie. Anomic suicide is triggered by the person’s incapability to cope with worry or disappointment brought about by changes in society or a person’s social groups. In examining the effects of anomie, Durkheim proved that there was a very high scale amount of anomic suicides that correlated with those who are very wealthy along with those who are now divorced. A very quick change in the day to day way of living or the end of a marriage makes for a hard pill to swallow and causes all that one is used to, to become unhinged. There is also something that resembles economic anomie, which is domestic anomie this comes about due to the expected or unexpected death to a spouse because this too takes away the normality of day to day life and leaves one completely and emotionally

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