Rural suicide rates are higher than urban suicide rates in industrialized Japan in contrast to the traditional pattern of higher urban suicide rates found in the West. The pattern is attributed to areal differences in social disintegration. This explanation is operationalized for Japan and tested empirically using data (1979-1981) on 47 prefectures. Higher suicide rates are observed in areas with a sparse population, a stagnant economy, and a population over-represented by elderly people. The explanatory power of the structural variables in the present study is also tested for each decade since 1960. These variables are found to be increasingly effective in predicting suicide rates as industrialization proceeds. Variation in social integration, rather than the degree of industrialization and urbanization, is the key to understanding the differentials in suicide rates.
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v.603-618(4)
其它主题
Industrializacion; Estudios de casos practicos; Etude de cas; Estructura agricola; Urbanizacion; Poblacion rural; Situacion economica; Situation economique
语言
英语
注释
references. AVAILABILITY: US (DNAL 281.28 R88).
类型
Journal Article; Journal Part
来源
Rural-sociology (USA). (Win 1991). v. 56(4) p. 603-618.
团体作者
International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Santafe de Bogota (Colombia). Facultad de Agronomia.
2012-11-15
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