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Extending recent developments in the neo-Durkheimian analysis of suicidality as an indicator of social pathology, this paper analyses individual level survey data on suicidal ideation, perceptions of social support, and the sense of belonging from three Canadian provinces drawn from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2015-16). We ask whether or not social support and a sense of belonging affect suicide ideation differently. In answering this question, we pay attention to both subjective and objective indicators of integration, and how subjective indicators independently affect suicide ideation. Results show that a higher level of social support had the largest effect on suicidal ideation and that the effect of a sense of belonging disappeared when measures of social support are accounted for. These findings are consistent with Durkheim's general theory of suicide and previous studies on mental health, highlighting the importance of regular, proximate social interaction as a prophylactic against suicidality. Suite aux developpements recents de l'analyse neodurkheimienne de la suicidalite comme indicateur de pathologie sociale, nous analysons ici des donnees d'enquetes individuelles sur les idees suicidaires, les perceptions de soutien social, et le sentiment d'appartenance de trois provinces canadiennes tirees de l'Enquete canadienne sur les mesures de la sante/Canadian Community Health Survey (ESCC 2015-16). Nous nous demandons si le soutien social et le sentiment d'appartenance ont un effet different, ou non, sur les idees suicidaires. Pour repondre a cette question, nous pretons attention aux indicateurs subjectifs et objectifs d'integration et a la facon dont les indicateurs subjectifs affectent independamment l'ideation suicidaire. Les resultats montrent qu'un niveau plus eleve de soutien social a l'effet le plus important sur les idees suicidaires et que l'effet du sentiment d'appartenance disparait lorsque les mesures du soutien social sont prises en compte. Ces resultats sont coherents avec la theorie generale du suicide chez Durkheim et avec les etudes anterieures sur la sante mentale, soulignant l'importance d'une interaction sociale reguliere et proche comme prophylactique contre la suicidalite., INTRODUCTION About 5.3 million Canadians wrestle with mental health issues (Statistics Canada, 2019), and roughly 11 people die by suicide in Canada every day. This amounts to about 4000 deaths [...]

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To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2451.2009.01695.x Byline: Ronjon Paul Datta (1) Abstract: Agamben's Homo Sacer (1998) here serves as a stimulus for developing a neo-Durkheimian approach to the political. Durkheim's sociology of the sacred and government is read symptomatically to highlight the extent to which sacralisations refer to a real but underdetermined ontology of the social that threatens to break loose into violence against the mechanisms of rule that regulate institutions, actions and the broader normative terrain in which collective fates are thought about and problematised. This neo-Durkheimian approach is deconstructive of Agamben and reconstructive of an alternative to his state-focused conception of sovereignty, the political and sacralisation. The political field is reconceptualised as structured by the sacred difference between politics and rule, instantiated by a limen - a door - through which the violence of politics may break, opening social life to the field of the contingency of history. This alternative thus shifts the focus from a political emergency to which states of exception, decided by state sovereignty, are a violent response, to exceptional states of an emergent politics grounded in the sacred power of popular sovereignty that may result in violence against rule. Author Affiliation: (1)University of Alberta

Recognizing the convergence of renewed scholarly interest in the sacred, and debates about fiscal sacrifices in recent economic history, this rethinking of Durkheim develops a symptomatic reading of his theory of sacrifice in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. The paper argues that Durkheim's suppression of political economic sensibilities in The Forms leads him to generate a fetishistic account of sacrifice as a moral activity that renews existing bases of rule. His analysis does so because it inadequately accounts for the role of structured inequalities in the production of the rite. A radical Durkheimian political economy of sacrifice is reclaimed by critically synthesizing it with the Foucauldian concept of dispositifs, one better able to account for the combined impact of knowledge control, inequality, and exclusion on moral life. The critical theoretical work is then applied to the axiological implications of neoliberal individualism, highlighting that it depends on and disavows sacrifice, specifically the sacrificing of people's capacity for altruism (or, the sacrifice of sacrifice). Finally, Durkheim's heterological sensibilities about the constitutive potential of the sacred in moments of collective effervescence are used to put the politics back in this political economy of sacrifice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Critically reconsidering Durkheim's sociology of suicide, we develop a quantitative analysis of individual level data contained in the Canadian Community Health Survey (2009-2012) to investigate the relationship between perceptions of social support and suicidality in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. We operationalize Durkheim's general sociology to investigate relationships between people's perceptions of the more objective aspects of social life (structural-institutional) and the more subjective dimensions of social life, on suicidal ideation. We find that people's perceptions of the quality of social support available to them significantly affect susceptibility to suicidality, lending credence to key aspects of Durkheim's general sociology of social pathology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper articulates the commitments, contours and justifications for a pluralist but non-eclectic critical, realist, reflexive social science with emancipatory aims. In it, we stress that social science can and should be used to guide the conceptualization of desirable and viable forms of social organization and their conditions of realization. In this regard, we advocate explanatory theorizing as an ethical duty of social scientists and as a moral good in itself as well as being an inherent epistemological component of scientific practice. This entails that we take seriously the research strategies apposite to our disciplinary, intertextual and interdiscursive locations to make a serious theoretical case and practical case for the kind of social science here advocated. In our view, such a social science must acknowledge the path-breaking work of Roy Bhaskar, but must also recognize that the arguments deployed in texts as a resource in intellectual work can never be treated as the axiomatic grounds for further thought, but must be interrogated thoroughly and in each case what is to be retained must be defensible. No position has a monopoly of relevant insights and the development of science often involves syntheses. Syntheses must not be syncretic but reflexively interrogated to assess epistemological, ontological and conceptual coherence to avoid eclecticism. Development in critical realist philosophy will, we believe, continue to confront and offer plausible resolutions to a range of battles within and pertinent to philosophy and social-scientific metatheory. However, realists must recognize the continuing importance and discursive effects of a variety of critical and realist work in being able to defend, sustain and develop rigorous social-scientific research with emancipatory commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the sacral conceptions of power and subjectivity in political and social ideology. Reference to the published materials "Economy and Society," "Revolt, She Said," by Julia Kristeva and "Žižek: A Critical Introduction," by Sarah Kay; Conception of collective radical acts according to Durkheimianism; Emergence of radical social power from the concentration of collective forces accompanied by a break from egoistic, utilitarian and homogenized social life.