CRIM20004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Social Fact, Sociality

• School: University of Melbourne
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM20004
• Professor: Haines

Document Summary

General statistics: overall stability in patterns (rate, rate for women is significantly lower than men. Female suicide peaked in 1965 and male peaked in 1929. Increasing trends for those aged 15-19 from early 1970s to mid-1990s: rates significantly decrease at ages 60, re(cid:272)e(cid:374)t (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ges de(cid:272)reasi(cid:374)g for 15-19 males. Increased for middle-aged and older women in 1960s. Lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374) rates are (cid:373)u(cid:272)h lo(cid:449)er i(cid:374) (cid:272)ities tha(cid:374) re(cid:373)ote regio(cid:374)s: differences between advantaged and disadvantaged. Methods of analysis: psychology and psychiatry, biological, ecological and temporal factors, durkheim"s social dynamics. Indicates need to look at factors outside individual. Early attempts at shifting attention away from individual: time of day, days of week, days of the month (e. g. ) full moon. Explaining the influence: dire(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:271)iologi(cid:272)al i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Egoistic suicide: egoism desires of the pre-social individual ("me") Stri(cid:272)ter so(cid:272)ietal (cid:272)o(cid:374)strai(cid:374)ts e(cid:454)pe(cid:272)tatio(cid:374)s/o(cid:271)ligatio(cid:374)s (cid:272)o(cid:374)strai(cid:374)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) fa(cid:272)tors outside themselves. "loss of pla(cid:272)e" people thro(cid:449)(cid:374) out of (cid:272)o(cid:373)fort zo(cid:374)e.