The second book starts off with how to determine social causes and social types. This chapter pretty much summarizes book two. This section shows that the first book was not so negative. Some ways to determine social causes is by classifying suicides by causes. This would be a good idea because it would be a way of tracking which one of the causes is more likely. Durkheim mentions two ways on how to determine the reason for suicides are suspected, and do not give true causes. Knowing what the cause to suicide is could be a solution so that rates stop escalating.
Chapter Two:
Egoistic suicide gets introduced in chapter two and three, first Durkheim begins with identifying the different religious confessions that affect suicide. The table’s show that in catholic countries is very unlikely to see suicide rates. While in protestant counties suicides are more likely to happen. The difference between both religions is that Catholics have four to five times less suicides. As for Jews they have fewer suicide rates than …show more content…
Suicide is seem to depend on the integration between domestic and political society. In this chapter Durkheim begins to express about how it is more likely for an un married person to commit suicide , but he does not understand why because he believe that a single person might have it easier than a married couple. Durkheim mentioned thought that France in 1873 through 1878 “there were 16,264 suicides of married persons while unmarried persons had only 11,709” (Durkheim 171). In this chapter police officer Bertillon shares his data regarding studies all labeled by men, women, age ranking, and civil states. Tables show that it was very likely for single and widowed men to commit suicides between the ages of 50 to 70. I believe that it is less likely for a married couple to commit suicide do to the fact that they have more ties to
Chapter Two:
Egoistic suicide gets introduced in chapter two and three, first Durkheim begins with identifying the different religious confessions that affect suicide. The table’s show that in catholic countries is very unlikely to see suicide rates. While in protestant counties suicides are more likely to happen. The difference between both religions is that Catholics have four to five times less suicides. As for Jews they have fewer suicide rates than …show more content…
Suicide is seem to depend on the integration between domestic and political society. In this chapter Durkheim begins to express about how it is more likely for an un married person to commit suicide , but he does not understand why because he believe that a single person might have it easier than a married couple. Durkheim mentioned thought that France in 1873 through 1878 “there were 16,264 suicides of married persons while unmarried persons had only 11,709” (Durkheim 171). In this chapter police officer Bertillon shares his data regarding studies all labeled by men, women, age ranking, and civil states. Tables show that it was very likely for single and widowed men to commit suicides between the ages of 50 to 70. I believe that it is less likely for a married couple to commit suicide do to the fact that they have more ties to