SOC 1100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2,6,17: Charismatic Authority, Traditional Authority, Alternative Medicine

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

Document Summary

This is a serious problem amoung aboriginal people, youth in particular. The royal commission on aboriginal people, conducted a study of the problem (1995) This would be lands occupied, resources seized, beliefs, and cultures ridiculed, children taken away, power centralized in distant capitals, hope for honourable coexistence dashed over and over again. Social conditions are a factor leading to suicide. Rates amoung aboriginal youth are 5-6 times higher than amoung their non- aboriginal peers: this is the cause of the ripple effect: where copycat suicides occur in related families and communities. Four contributing causes of suicide: psycho-biological factors, life history or situational factors, socio-economic factors, cultural stress; applies to (cid:862)so(cid:272)ieties that ha(cid:448)e u(cid:374)dergo(cid:374)e (cid:373)assi(cid:448)e, i(cid:373)posed, a(cid:374)d u(cid:374)(cid:272)o(cid:374)trolla(cid:271)le (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ge. (cid:863) E(cid:373)ile durkhei(cid:373)"s a(cid:374)alysis of sui(cid:272)ide: his conclusion was that the degree of social integration is key to understanding suicide. Cultural and social dislocation of aboriginal people is a result from their colonial history.