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Sociological Theory Of Suicide Durkheim Video

You will have two 2 prompts to choose from. Durkheim believed that social forces would affect the overall suicide rate — these forces became his independent variables.

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Durkheim argued that suicide was a social fact and that suicide rates were to be treated as Sui Generis and evidence of underlying social forces at work in society. This should include answers to the following questions: what are the four types of suicide?

What are the social causes of these different types of suicide? How do these causes relate to the structure of societies and the relationship of society to the self? What did Durkheim find was the relationship between marriage including variants upon the state of matrimony and rates of suicide? How did this vary by gender?

How did marriage as an institution and a family arrangement manage to affect suicide rates? The rate of marriage peaked in the s and has steadily dropped since the s.

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Divorce rates have also increased since the s. Having children out of wedlock is now common. Applying what you know about the relationship between marriage as an institution and suicide rates, how would you expect the suicide rates of the s to compare to the suicide rates of today?]