SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Altruistic Suicide, Solidarity, List Of Sovereign States By Suicide Rate
Document Summary
Suicide is the most anti social act possible. you kill society through yourself. Rate of suicide is a function, not of state of mind but of social state. Woman suffer from twice the rate of eurospenia but men are 3 times more likely to commit suicide rate is highest in non-protestants. Distress and suicide people are embedded in social relationships but the nature of the social relations causes one in social distress may incline one to commit suicide or not, Social solidarity according to durkheim: a group"s level of social solidarity is determined by the frequency, which its members interact, and the degree to which they share beliefs, values and morals. Suicide rates are lowest at intermediate levels of social solidarity and highest at low and high levels of social solidarity. Ex protestant groups are individualized and they are more likely to commit suicide. Shared morality and social values lowers suicide risk. Read about the diff kinds of social solidarity.
