SOC100H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Altruistic Suicide, Solidarity, Metatheory
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People focus on individual lives rather than social state of society when looking at suicide. Emilie durkheim, nineteenth century french sociologist, one of the founders of sociology. He showed suicide rates are influenced by social forces. Hypothesis suicide rates are higher where psychological disorders are higher and vice versa. The opposite was true (i. e. asylums contained more women but men are 4x more likely to commit suicide) Social solidarity degree which a person shares group beliefs and how interactive they are in a community. Higher social solidarity = more involved in community. Altruistic suicide occurs in situation of high social solidarity. (i. e. divorced adults are more likely to commit suicide) Norms tightly govern behavior (i. e soldier dying for other soldiers from strong patriotism) Egoistic suicide- occurs in low social solidarity when people have weak ties with others or do not integrate themselves. Anomic suicide occurs in low social solidarity from norms vaguely governing behavior.
