SOCI 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Mass Suicide, For Marx, Egotism
8 Feb 2018
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The results of the secularization of the world is that humans, attached to science and rationality, believe that they can dismantle the entire world. There is no causal relationship: argues that there is no pathological condition that can cause suicide, he found that a relationship between suicide and race/hereditary conditions exists. People killed themselves because they copied other people who did it: imitation is insufficient to explain the causes of suicide, imitation is ambiguous. It cannot be statistically validated or properly defined: classification (4 types of suicide, altruistic suicide: self-sacrificing, killing oneself for the benefit of the group, implies a too high degree of integration and conformity. There is no priest as a middle man. A higher level of education and literacy is required in protestantism than catholicism; consequently, more individuals feel separated from their. God/faith, which can result in suicide: in judaism, there is a high level of cohesion.
