After Listing and Defining Durkheim's Four Types of Suicide and Hirschi's

question 19

Essay

After listing and defining Durkheim's four types of suicide and Hirschi's four elements of the social bond, compare and contrast how Hirschi might explain Durkheim's suicidal types from a social-psychological perspective using control theory. For instance, can attachment adequately explain altruistic suicide?

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Definitions:

Enthymeme

A rhetorical argument that leaves out a premise or conclusion, assuming it to be implicitly understood by the audience.

Existential Import

The implication that some statement or proposition necessarily involves the existence of certain entities.

Standard Form

A conventional, widely accepted manner of presenting an argument or expression, often in logic and mathematics.

Venn Diagram

A graphical representation of mathematical or logical sets pictorially as circles or closed curves within an enclosing rectangle (the universal set).