SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Nationstates, Blue-Collar Worker, Participant Observation
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Sociology offers a unique, surprising and enlightening perspective on social events (e. g. suicide). Suicide most anti-social act: everyone in society condemns it, typically committed in private, far from public"s intrusive glare, comparatively rare (recent years: approx. 11 suicides for every 100,000 canadians: when trying to figure out the reason for someone"s suicide, we usually focus on their individual state of mind rather than the state of the society. Sociology can reveal the hidden social causes of such a non-social and anti-social phenomenon. The sociological explanation of suicide: emile durkheim: suicide is more than an individual act of desperation resulting from psychological disorder. Rather suicide rates are strongly influenced from social forces: he gathered statistics from european gov"t statistics, hospital records, and other sources which conveyed that suicide rates are not high when psychological disorder is high and vise versa. More women than men were in insane asylums but four male suicides occurred for every female suicide.
