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Anomic Suicide

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Anomic Suicide
A type of suicide resulting from a disrupted relationship


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Altruistic suicide is a tendency for an individual to sacrifice self for the group, and anomic suicide is a response to social change whether good or bad.
Lastly, anomic suicides occur when the relationship between an individual and his/her society is suddenly damaged or destroyed, such as in the loss of employment, significant others, or finances.
As Durkheim defined them, both anomie and egoism resulted from the collapse of traditional restraints and, thus, their incidence could be used as an index for social pathology: the rate of anomic suicide measured alienation, while the rate of egoistic measured the decline of self-restraint.
 
 
 
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