Durkheim Mills Suicide Practicing Sociology EMILE DURKHEIM 1858

Durkheim, Mills, & Suicide: Practicing Sociology

EMILE DURKHEIM 1858 -1917

The Shift in Social Integration Soc ial Inte gra tion o n A e i m

The basic scientific method Theoretical DEDUCTIVE Empirical INDUCTIVE Theoretical

From the Theoretical to the empirical Theoretical: More Integration: Less Anomie Less integration: More Anomie: [Operationalization] Empirical: Religion Suicide Rates Jews Catholics Low Medium Protestants High

And back to theory…. • Egoistic suicide: Suicide as a means to escape facing the consequences of actions. • Altruistic suicide: Suicide as a means to contribute to the social group. • Anomic suicide: Suicide from a loss of social contacts and sense of belonging. • Fatalistic suicide: Suicide to escape the rules of a social group.

C. Wright Mills C The Sociological Imagination

The Sociological Imagination Biography Society History " No social study that does not come back to the problem of biography, of history and of their interactions within a society has completed its intellectual journey. " Mills-p. 3

MACRO / ISSUES MICRO / TROUBLES

VALUES & THREATS Awareness of Values Perception of Threat YES NO CRISIS ANXIETY MALAISE WELLBEING INDIFFERE NCE

Suicide rate table handout Suicide rate (per 100, 000 persons in each age group) By age, sex, and race, United States, 2007 Suicide rate table. docx