Social integration, imitation, and the geographic patterning of suicide
Social integration, imitation, and the geographic patterning of suicide
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DOI：
10.2307/3088974
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发表时间：
2002-12-01
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Richardson, KK
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作者：
Baller, RD;Richardson, KK
社会学的一个定义性争论集中在对自杀的地理模式的解释上。这一经典的辩论是重新使用空间分析和数据的两个地理技术：十九世纪后期的法国部门，和二十世纪后期的美国县。法国的分析结果与涂尔干的主张相矛盾，涂尔干认为“模仿”在形成自杀的地理模式方面没有作用。法国北方和南方各省的自杀率在地理上是聚集的，即使在控制了社会融合的多个维度的聚集的情况下也是如此。这些发现在当代对美国非西部县的分析中得到了复制。然而，美国西部的研究结果支持了涂尔干的观点，即自杀在地理空间上的聚集只是因为自杀的重要结构预测因素，包括社会融合的措施，这样做。好.这些不一致的结果是和解，并得出结论，自杀的地理模式是由社会融合和模仿。
One of sociology's defining debates centers on explanations of the geographic patterning of suicide. this classic debate is revisited using techniques of spatial analysis and data for two geographies: late nineteenth-century French departments, and late twentieth-century U.S. counties. Results of the French analysis contradict Durkheim's claim that "imitation" plays no role in shaping the geographic patterning of suicide. Suicide rates for northern and southern French departments cluster geographically even when the clustering of multiple dimensions of social integration is controlled. These findings are replicated in a contemporary analysis of nonwestern U.S. counties. Results for the American West, however support the Durkheimian view that suicide clusters in geographic space only because important structural predictors of suicide, including measures,of social integration, do so as. well. These discrepant findings are reconciled and it is concluded that the geographic patterning of suicide is shaped by both social integration and imitation.