Durkheim's "Suicide" in the Zombie Apocalypse. (May 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mueller, Anna S.; Abrutyn, Seth; Osborne, Melissa
• Is Part Of: Contexts. Volume 16:Number 2(2017:Spring)
• Page Start: 44
• Page End: 49
• Publication Date: 2017-05
• Subjects: suicide -- society -- Durkheim -- zombies -- theory -- theoretical sociology; Social sciences -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- United States -- Periodicals; United States -- Social conditions -- Periodicals; 301.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1536504217714260
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1536-5042

Abstract

Hypothesizing the end of functional society by reading Durkheim and watching "The Walking Dead, " three scholars consider how low social integration and low moral regulation shape suicide risk at the group level.