...certain limits. So with social phenomena. If, as we have just seen, excessive individuation leads to suicide, insufficient individuation has the same effects....he does so likewise when social integration is too strong. It has sometimes2 been said that suicide was unknown among lower societies. Thus expressed,...

...the statement that If, as we have just seen, excessive individuation [in egoism and anomie] leads to suicide, insufficient individuation has the same effects....he does so likewise when social integration is too strong. ([1897] 1951:217) From a positivistic perspective, a state in which suicide varies directly...

...describes one of the dualities of suicide as a tension between social commitment and social detachment: "When man has become detached from society he encounters...he does so likewise when social integration is too strong."10 Arguedas exhibits relations of detachment from and also strong integration with the social...

...258) . . . excessive individuation leads to suicide, insufficient individuation has the same effect. When man has become detached from society, he encounters...he does so likewise when social integration is too strong. (p. 217) On the basis of his studies, he concluded that suicide is infrequent when the standards...

...meaninglessness. The opposite of low integration/egoistic suicide is high integration/altruistic suicide. "When man has become detached from society, he encounters...he does so likewise when social integration is too strong" (217). Durkheim equates this type of suicide with those primitive societies in which suicide...