1. Durkheim, Mills, & Suicide: Practicing Medical Sociology

2. Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim

3. The Shift in Social Integration
Anomie
Social Integration

4. The basic scientific method
Theoretical DEDUCTIVE Empirical INDUCTIVE

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

6. 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.

7. C C. Wright Mills The Sociological Imagination

8. The Sociological Imagination
Biography
History
Society
" 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
" 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

9. MACRO / ISSUES
MICRO / TROUBLES

10. VALUES & THREATS Awareness of Values Perception of Threat YES NO
CRISIS 
ANXIETY MALAISE 
WELL-BEING 
INDIFFERENCE 

11. 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