SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Industrial Revolution, Altruistic Suicide
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Women suffer from much higher rate of neuroskemia twice as high rate much as men. But men do commit suicide twice as much as the women. The highest rate of suicide was from protestants. Negative correlation between high rate of suicide and neuroskemia. Nature of social relations determine the rate of suicide. Married people have family relations, at a given level of sociological distress will not commit suicide compared to the unmarred person with the same level of sociological distress. Jews high level of social interaction- low committing suicide. When social solidarity increases beyond a specific level, the suicide rate also increases altruistic suicide. Ex. sacrificing yourself in a war, as an act of loyalty. Curvilinear relationship of it. the first-ideas about how the world works and explanations how people behave, are not what just sociologists do. Sociologists learn how to systematically collect info to test hypothesis. Three revolutions had to take place before the sociological imagination could crystallize:
