Compare And Contrast Alienation And Suicide

The goal of this paper is to compare prior research and uncover some of the factors that lead to alienation and how alienation could tie into suicidology. I will provide a brief history of suicide and state why it is important to study suicide in the sociology field. I will then compile information from the prior research and analyze it, comparing many aspects in hope of finding an underlying theme. I will look into three categories; demographics, integration, and mental status. I will then finish with a conclusion and the hypothesis which will then lead to my research proposal. Let us begin.
History
Suicide has a big effect on society because not only are we losing valuable members of society, we are also losing the moral compass of society. Alienation can cause tons of issues, children …show more content…
Such an example is Genie. Genie was a child who was locked away from society by her parents. She was socially inept and dramatically underdeveloped for her age. The story of Genie is well known in the sociology and psychology fields because it is a case that can be studied from many different angles. We can apply the same to suicide. Alienation is the low integration of a person that can cause severe repercussions, such as death from suicide or further alienation from attempting suicide. For thousands of years our society was focused on mechanic solidarity which implies that people for the most part did the same thing, there were no universal division of labors. This is helpful for keeping suicide down because everyone in a mechanical solidarity society is expected to behave in the same mannerisms and people for the most part believe in the same things. As organic solidarity became the new norm, more beliefs were being tolerated by the majority, division of labor was in full swing, and society was thought to be moving to a better way of life. For the most art the