SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Scientific Method, Class Conflict, Social Darwinism
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Suicide appears to be supremely antisocial and non - social. Third - comparatively rare: in 2006, 10. 8 suicides for every 100,000 people in canada compared to world average of 16 suicides to 100,000. Finally - people who commits such acts, focus on individual states of mind rather than the state of society. More interested in events that cause individuals to become depressed or angry enough to resort to killing themselves. Do not think about patterns of social relations that encourage or inhibit such actions. Mile durkheim (1897-1951) - suicide is more than just an individual act of desperation that result from a psychological disorder, commonly believed at the time. Durkheim showed social forces strongly influence suicide rates. Durkheim examined rates of suicide and rates of psychological disorder for different groups. Reasoned that suicide rates tend to be high where rates of psychological rates are high, and low where rates of psychological disorder are low.
