title: Suicide: a 15-year review of the sociological literature. Part II: modernization and social integration perspectives.
abstract: This article reviews the findings of 84 sociological studies published over a 15-year period. These studies deal with tests of the modernization and/or social integration perspectives on suicide. Research on modernization, religious integration, and political integration often questioned or reformulated the traditional Durkheimian perspective. A major new theoretical development, Pescosolido's religious networks perspective, gained some empirical support in the 15-year period. The strongest support for social integration theory came from research on marital integration, wherein more than three quarters of the research found a significant relationship. Finally, further research on migration, a force lowering social integration, continued to tend to find a positive link to suicide.
authors.affiliation: Department of Criminal Justice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202-3622, USA. aa1051@wayne.edu
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Stack
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D004243:Divorce; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D012067:Religion; D012923:Social Class; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D012961:Sociology; D013405:Suicide / Q000523:psychology* / Q000639:trends*; D014481:United States