Social theories of suicide

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
Ilkka Henrik Mäkinen ◽  
Yerko Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Relative Number ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Collective Phenomenon ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Social Components

In this chapter, some social theories in relation to suicide are presented together with examples from actual research. Although an individual act, suicide can be studied as a collective phenomenon, for example, as the relative number of cases that occur in different groups. Most social-scientific theories of suicide consider these not only as accumulations of individual observations, but also as results of social-level properties, events, and processes. The social environment in its different forms is thought to be connected with suicidal behaviour in multiple ways—the reasons for, the performance of, and the communication about the act all have strong social components. The currents in social research into suicide coincide largely with those in the social sciences more generally, with a preponderance, however, of structuralist studies following in the footsteps of Emile Durkheim.

School Notes: Committee on Historical Studies

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-236
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Graduate Faculty ◽  
New School ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Historical Moment

The Committee on Historical Studies was established in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1984. The Graduate Faculty has long emphasized the contribution of history to the social sciences. Committee on Historical Studies (CHS) courses offer students the opportunity to utilize social scientific concepts and theories in the study of the past. The program is based on the conviction that the world changes constantly but changes systematically, with each historical moment setting the opportunities and limiting the potentialities of the next. Systematic historical analysis, however, is not merely a diverting luxury. Nor is it simply a means of assembling cases for present-oriented models of human behavior. It is a prerequisite to any sound understanding of processes of change and of structures large or small.

scholarly journals Pragmatism, Ontology, and Philosophy of the Social Sciences in Practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Lohse
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Scientific Theories ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific

In this article, I will discuss two prominent views on the relevance and irrelevance of ontological investigations for the social sciences, namely, ontological foundationalism and anti-ontological pragmatism. I will argue that both views are unsatisfactory. The subsequent part of the article will introduce an alternative role for ontological projects in the philosophy of the social sciences that fares better in this respect by paying attention to the ontological assumptions of actual social scientific theories, models, and related explanatory practices. I will illustrate and support this alternative through discussion of three concrete cases.

Social research and state planning

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Murray ◽  
Maria Feeney
Keyword(s):  
Social Research ◽  
Social Spending ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
State Planning ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Crisis Conditions ◽  
The 1960S

Chapter 6 examines the relationship between the programming state and social research. Initial crisis conditions had enabled increased social spending to be left off the government programmers’ agenda. The changed politics of increasing prosperity, as well as their own expanding ambitions, meant that this could no longer be sustained during the 1960s. Ireland’s social security provision became an object of both political debate and social scientific analysis in this period. The official response to this ferment was a Social Development Programme to which the ESRI was initially seen as a vital provider of inputs. During the 1960s a Save the West movement challenged both programmers and governing politicians. The official response to this challenge involved new structures for rural development with which the social sciences interacted as well as expanded social welfare provision to a class of smallholders whose resilience would later become an object of significant sociological study. As the 1960s proceeded, however, Irish state plans and programmes had to contend with an increasingly difficult external environment with which they ultimately failed to cope.

scholarly journals Understanding Mechanistic Explanation as A Strategy of Analytical Sociology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 192-198
Author(s):  
Danjuma Sheidu Asaka ◽  
Olabode Awarun
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Max Weber ◽  
Mechanistic Explanation ◽  
Alexis De Tocqueville ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Analytical Sociology ◽  
Sociological Discourse

Although Analytical Sociology is not often used in the mainstream Sociology, its history is however, traceable to the classical works of scholars such as Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Alexis de Tocqueville as well as contemporary sociological thinkers like Talcott Parsons and Robert Merton, among others. This paper provides a contemporary argument for the application of mechanistic explanation in the overall understanding of Analytical Sociology using relevant and practical examples. In the course of this, attention has been paid to the concept of explanation and its various types in a sociological discourse. This paper therefore argues that social reality can significantly be understood only when explanations are systematic and detailed in content and context. The conclusion is that analytical sociology has the capacity to explain the actions of social actors within the social environment beyond some social doubts, even though, not all situations, can be sufficiently explained with the strategy.

scholarly journals DESAFIOS DA PRÁTICA PASTORAL NA CONTEMPORANEIDADE

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (18) ◽  
pp. 499
Author(s):  
Eduardo Leandro Alves ◽  
Júlio Cézar Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Faith Community ◽  
Human Being ◽  
The Social ◽  
Biblical Principles ◽  
Pastoral Practice ◽  
Pastoral Action

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar fundamentos da ação pastoral, com vistas a compreender que a ação pastoral e a pregação são interdependentes, cuja relevância está intimamente ligada no envolvimento diário com aqueles que estão no “raio de alcance” pastoral. Inicialmente, com o intuito de compreender o ambiente social em questão, utiliza-se o método de etnografia da pesquisa social. Em seguida utiliza-se caminhos propostos pela Teologia Prática identificando princípios bíblicos para a pregação na ação pastoral com vistas a alcançar o objetivo de cuidar do ser humano conforme os ensinos do Evangelho de Jesus.  Busca-se alinhar neste texto a teoria com a prática do pesquisador no pastoreio de uma igreja Pentecostal. Assim, as perspectivas aqui registradas não visam a ser exaustivas ou normativas, mas fazem parte de um recorte no exercício pastoral nessa comunidade de fé.The purpose of this article is to analyse the basis of pastoral action in order to understand that both pastoral action and preaching are mutually dependent. The relevance of pastoral action is related to the daily engagement with those who are within the pastoral scope. Firstly, an ethnographic method of social research is used to properly understand the social environment at issue. Secondly, the paths proposed by Practical Theology were followed. They identify biblical principles for preaching in order to reach the goal of caring for the human being according to the teachings of Jesus. An alignment of the theory with the practice of the researcher as shepherding a Pentecostal church is attempted. Thus, the perspectives showed are not intended to be exhaustive or normative but they are taken from an example of the pastoral practice in that faith community.

scholarly journals Digital Social Futures Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Sarah Pink
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Strong Base ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Digital Material ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Interdisciplinary Interventions

Social research is almost inevitably digital: in its subject matter because the digital, social and material dimensions of our worlds and lives are now inseparably entangled; and in its methods as our research techniques and encounters are, even if indirectly, implicated with digital technologies, platforms and practices. Social scientific renderings of digital technologies and media and everyday life propose a range of discipline-specific ways of understanding this relationship between the online/offline and digital/material, and a large and growing literature about digital methods and practice for research and its dissemination. The new challenge is to advance from this strong base of critical research and scholarship within the social sciences and humanities, in two ways. First towards interdisciplinary interventions that will bring theory, methods and concepts into dialogue with technology and design disciplines, and policy and industry agendas; and second to engage with emerging digital technologies and communication, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and Automated Decision Making (ADM), and the new socialities, everyday life practices and business models associated with these technological possibilities.

Hospital Roommates: An Interview with a Terminally III Patient

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Veatch ◽  
Laurelyn L. Veatch
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Provider ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Quality Care ◽  
Health State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Caring Activity ◽  
Social Components ◽  
The Impact

Among the important functions of the healthcare provider in providing quality care is the monitoring of the social environment of the patient. Although it is increasingly recognized that caring activity must include the whole patient and not merely the technical and pharmacological aspects of the patient's needs, the impact of the social environment upon the total health state (which includes physical, emotional, and social components) has not been explored and debated to the extent that It might be.

Sport and Social Theory

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Cultural Critique ◽  
Emile Durkheim ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Contemporary Life

This chapter provides an overview of how major social theories, both classical and contemporary, can help organize and enrich the historical study of sport. Classical frameworks discussed include the functionalism associated with Émile Durkheim, Max Weber’s rationalization, and the economic and capitalist critiques that originated with Karl Marx. More contemporary bodies of work include symbolic interactionism, dramaturgical and semiotic approaches, feminist and critical race theories, and the grand syntheses of Pierre Bourdieu. Throughout, it is argued that these theoretical resources reveal the socially constructed and historically contingent nature of modern sporting forms, establish the importance of situating sport in its broader social contexts, and highlight the role and significance of sport in contemporary life. The chapter concludes by suggesting that closer theoretical engagement not only improves the quality of sport history but can help bring the study of sport more to the center of all social research and cultural critique.

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