Question
How Durkhiem interpreted suicide?

Answer

According to Durkheim, all deaths which are the direct or indirect results of any Se function of dead person about which he himself knows that thin act will cause death to him.
Durkheim suggested four forms of Suicide:
  1. Egoistic Suicide: Characterised by excessive reflection on personal matters.
  2. Altruistic Suicide: When the individual is over integrated with society. For example, Jauhar Pratha in Rajputs.
  3. Anomic Suicide: The state, which results from the weakening of powers in society that regulate social equilibrium. Individual meets frustration, which they are not able to cope with.
  4. Fatalistic Suicide: Due to excessive degree of regulation e.g. suicide of enslavement under the master.

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