SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Altruistic Suicide, Social Forces

• School: UTM
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC100H5
• Professor: Nathan Innocente

Document Summary

Systematic study of human behavior in a social context. Seeing the general in the particular, the strange in the familiar. Identify social context in which we live and how these contexts shape our lives: ex. A perspective that links private problems of the individual and important social issues. Interconnection between life of an individual and the history of society. Egoistic suicide: feeling alone, low social integration. Anomic suicide: feeling disconnected from society, not fitting in, due to social change. Altruistic suicide: committed for the benefit of others: ex. Killing self after loved one dies, falling on a grenade for other soldiers. Suicide rates vary by degree of social solidarity.