The Prevalence of Aboriginal Suicide—the Data
Scientific studies of suicide have multiplied like flies since the 1920s: clinical investigations, statistical analyses, aspects of this and that,…
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Scientific studies of suicide have multiplied like flies since the 1920s: clinical investigations, statistical analyses, aspects of this and that,…
‘The incompletes are bad and scary, the kids who are not trying to live’. That remarkable analysis is from an…
The traditional or classic youth suicide profile is characterised by, inter alia, severe depression, feelings of hopelessness, social isolation, anger,…
Emile Durkheim’s Le Suicide, perhaps the most seminal work in the field, took a long time to be translated into…
Two Australians prominent in the suicide field have advocated the consideration of likely social factors in suicide include the following:…
Aboriginal children—unlike disenchanted, dislocated and disaffected non-Aboriginal youth—are socialised from birth to an endemic and all-pervasive racism. Racism means that…
The novelist and suicide, Cesare Pavese, once said that ‘no one ever lacks a good reason for suicide’. While there…
In no sense do I discuss these factors as a way of blaming the victim, or explaining the problems as…
Suicide is seen as an indicator of crisis in a society, a serious phenomenon most worthy of our attention. Therefore,…
Statistical data on suicide as they are compiled today deserve little if any credence; it has been repeatedly pointed out…
A person whose dependence on officials is so permanent and complete that he cannot even stage a public appeal may…
Thus even the author of the entry on suicide in the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics writes, with unconcealed relief:…
The first part of this paper dealt mainly with the first problem I identified: that incentives alone are a fragile…
Violent behaviour, such as threats and physical assault, occurs in every society. It grows out of the social order and…
Though the previous comments only scratch the surface of how actors are motivated in confined social spaces, I move here…
To expand Hitler’s support, Reich Bishop Müller gave the Evangelical Youth over to the Hitler Youth led by Baldur von…
Point 1: “The aim of these guiding principles is to indicate to all believing German men how and why the…
The degree of the mainstream Protestant Churches’ failure is still a severely controversial issue. Most people feel that the Protestant…
Point 1: “The National Reich Church of Germany categorically claims the exclusive right and the exclusive power to control all…
Economic sociology is no longer a novelty. Born in the late 19th century and reborn in the 1970s, it has…
To fully comprehend the German Church Struggle, it is important to first recognize the Protestant Churches’ dimensions. In 1925, a…
A. Mutual Adversaries These guidelines illustrate how the National Socialist party was trying to embed the Protestant Churches with the…
A. The Kirchenkampf Initiates When the Church Struggle began, the Protestant Churches and almost all of Germany were being restructured….
The symbolic interactionist perspective in sociological social psychology sees the self as emerging out of the mind, the mind as…