SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Order Theory, Altruistic Suicide, Proletariat
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Dante"s inferno- the woods of the suicides and the harpies [catholic religion harpies picking the flesh off bodies, painfull 24/7] Philosophy and psychology approach suicide as an indivudual issue sociology takes a broad view looks at it ffrom a social point of view forces that may affect ones life ex. 1994 mass suicide in switzerland [53 people] canadian cult *wouldnt be seen as an individual problem/ told y a leader* suicides over ashley madison hack. Applying the sociological perspective anti-social individual act [psychologist protray it] Deaths in afghanistan = at least 1 a day lack social supports and government support anomie = injuries, disabilities. Semi-colon a pause but not a complete stop. Changes overtime rise due to: social changes in society changes in recording death certificates. Administrative decisions and suicide rates children"s suicides changes there will be a change in statistics religious reasons recorded as accidental etc. once that. Europe 19th c. / religious, suicide, couldn"t be buried tradi- tionally.