Monday, January 6, 2014 - 00:00
This article explores how suicide is often presented in contemporary popular discourse as an individualistic act of self-destruction, but notes that when when academic sociology emerged as a discipline in the nineteenth century, suicide was initially studied as a cultural phenomenon. Contemporary studies of suicide in the context of organised work, however, have a distinct 'individualistic' approach which disregards the tradition of studying suicide from cultural perspectives which have the potential to help people impacted by the suicide of a workmate and to help employees who might be at risk.