SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Solidarity, Erving Goffman, Scientific Revolution
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Sociology take an enlightening perspective when it comes to suicide: suicide: supremely antisocial and non-social act. Society possesses pattern of social relation that might encourage or inhibit such action. Suicide rates increase as age increase: social solidarity: the degree to which group members share belief and values. The more they share the more anchored they become to the social world. And less likely to take their own life: married couple are half as likely to suicide as unmarried adults, suicide varies with the degree of integration of the social group of which the individual forms a part. Suicide rates by age and sex in canada. Social relation affects your thoughts, feelings and influence your actions: help you to shape who you are. Social structure: a relatively stable pattern of social relations. Inexpensive travel and communication allow all parts of the world to become interconnected.
