SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Social Stratification, Auguste Comte, Scientific Revolution
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Emile durkheim believed that people committed suicide based on their social relations rather than their state of mind. Women suffer from a much higher rate of psychological distress, but men tend to commit suicide far more than women. Association between rate of psychological distress between age and religious groups. Rate of psychological distress was highest among jews who had the lowest rate of suicide. Therefore, there was a lack of correlation between these two variable (higher rate of psychological distress= higher rate of suicide) This acts as the foundation to why people commit suicide. Level of social solidarity in given group. A groups level of social solidarity is determined by the frequency with 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.
