Towards a Push– Pull Theoretical Understanding in the Sociology of Suicide: Revisiting What We Know and What We Can Explore

Authors

  • Mark Anthony Mujer Quintos University of the Philippines

Keywords:

Suicide, Sociology, Self-harm, Deviance, Suicidology

Abstract

The increasing prevalence of suicide in the Philippines necessitates the utilization of various disciplines to understand the phenomenon. This article attempts to contribute to this endeavor from a sociological perspective. The paper starts with a review of the wealth of theories that Sociology has to offer in explaining suicide from centuries past to the
present, covering pre-Durkheimian theories all the way to Durkheim’s contemporaries and those coming from the Interpretivist paradigm. The paper then proceeds to propose a new framework with which to explain the phenomenon borne from the synthesis of two theories not of suicide but rather of criminology: Agnew’s General Strain theory and Hirschi’s
Social Bonds theory.

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Published

2022-10-05

How to Cite

Mujer Quintos, M. A. (2022). Towards a Push– Pull Theoretical Understanding in the Sociology of Suicide: Revisiting What We Know and What We Can Explore. Silliman Journal, 58(1). Retrieved from https://sillimanjournal.su.edu.ph/index.php/sj/article/view/61