SOCI201 Lecture 2: Suicide

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Suicide 2: we think of suicide as a psychological issue, but it is a social phenomenon, it can be considered honorable, it can be a group activity, sociology began with human history"s greatest transformation, the industrial revolution. People always said things were rapidly changing. Explaining the pace of society: people interested in the relative strength of certain countries and states, people started wondering how many people there are in places, taking 19th century census. Other places have a larger population so the numbers will all seem different. In prussia there was a lot of protestants, some catholics, and some jews. Suicide rate since ww2 has gone down ** Because doctors have to decide the cause of death. See a fall in southern states that were former confederate states. Invention of sociology: explaining patterns in suicide, producing suicides, bottom line: sociology requires thinking systematically aboutsocial relationships.