SOCIOLOGY Lecture Notes - Altruistic Suicide, Meera, Anomie
20 Mar 2022
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According to emile durkheim suicides are classified as. Fatalistic this denotes to fate like marriage, military etc. where obligations drive you into suicide. Altruistic- this type of suicide is found when people die for honour of group prestige is called altruistic suicide. Religion- for religious sake also people sometimes give their life like saints like guru go bind singh. Compulsion mirabai drank the poison for her love towards lord krishna. Anomic suicide- when anomie like normlessness forms people commit suicide for the sake of communities wellbeing. A link between social institutions and individual given by emile durkheim. Padmavati committed suicide because of prestige and over attachment to her husband and rajput clan. Animism and naturalism was also studied by emile durkheim and he found that basic religion is tokenism. He studied vast religions of th e world and found large treatises on sociology of religion. Sacred and profane is the term mainly used by emile durkheim.
