Abstract
This report takes as its starting point the idea that we can add to our understanding of suicide among men from
lower socio-economic groups in mid-life, and its prevention, by linking this most ‘private trouble’ to larger
socio-cultural processes. Drawing on a rapid review of mainly sociological research evidence relating to the
broad areas of social change and personal relationships, emotions talk and mid-life, the report is based on a
wide-ranging (but non-systematic) review of sociological research relevant to these themes. In light of the
significance of talk and relationships for suicide prevention, the report focuses on two specific social changes:
the assumed shift towards living in a more emotionally expressive society and the changing nature of personal
relationships. By thinking of mid-life not just in terms of age/life stage, but also as a generational and cohort
position, and through shifting our lens from the individual act of suicide to the socio-cultural terrain of men’s
emotional lives generally, it identifies aspects of the mid-life experience that might inform the work of support
agencies in helping these men to ‘keep on the road’. It argues that there are important questions to be asked
about the significance of being in mid-life at this particular historical time; the relative impact of gender and
class on men’s beliefs and practices relating to emotions talk; the impact of demographic and relational shifts
on men’s personal relationships; and who it is that men turn to and the nature of the support they seek.
Abstract
This report takes as its starting point the idea that we can add to our understanding of suicide among men from
lower socio-economic groups in mid-life, and its prevention, by linking this most ‘private trouble’ to larger
socio-cultural processes. Drawing on a rapid review of mainly sociological research evidence relating to the
broad areas of social change and personal relationships, emotions talk and mid-life, the report is based on a
wide-ranging (but non-systematic) review of sociological research relevant to these themes. In light of the
significance of talk and relationships for suicide prevention, the report focuses on two specific social changes:
the assumed shift towards living in a more emotionally expressive society and the changing nature of personal
relationships. By thinking of mid-life not just in terms of age/life stage, but also as a generational and cohort
position, and through shifting our lens from the individual act of suicide to the socio-cultural terrain of men’s
emotional lives generally, it identifies aspects of the mid-life experience that might inform the work of support
agencies in helping these men to ‘keep on the road’. It argues that there are important questions to be asked
about the significance of being in mid-life at this particular historical time; the relative impact of gender and
class on men’s beliefs and practices relating to emotions talk; the impact of demographic and relational shifts
on men’s personal relationships; and who it is that men turn to and the nature of the support they seek.
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