English
This article investigates the heuristic value of the ideal-type of fatalistic suicide to understanding suicides in general. In his seminal work, Émile Durkheim indeed only dedicated a footnote to its analysis. Based on an in-depth analysis of farmers’ suicides, it demonstrates that this phenomenon cannot be reduced to the analytical dimension of social isolation but must also be considered from the perspective of the normative pressure of family ties.
- Suicide
- farmers
- work
- family
- psychosocial risks
- ambivalence
