#562 Jason Manning - Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction
RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 2nd 2021.
Dr. Jason Manning is an Associate Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University. He’s a theoretical sociologist who seeks to develop general explanations of human behavior, his work focuses primarily on conflict and social control, including various means of expressing grievances, handling disputes, and punishing offenses. Within this area he specializes in violent conflict, particularly in self-destructive forms of violence such as protest suicide, homicide-suicide, and suicide terrorism. His other interests include the sociology of science, sociology of religion, and neoDarwinian theories of culture. He is the author of Suicide: The Social Causes of Self-Destruction.
In this episode, we focus on Suicide. We start by defining suicide, and then talk about the work of Émile Durkheim on suicide, and suicide in the context of conflict. Other topics include economic, social factors, and cultural factors behind suicide; if suicide is really the result of mental illness; the relationship between suicide and homicide; if suicide is rational; and ways of preventing it.
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Intro
What is suicide?
Émile Durkheim’s work
Economic and social factors behind suicide
Suicide in the context of conflict
Psychological causes, and mental illness
Suicide in industrial societies
The social effects of suicide
The relationship between suicide and homicide
Suicide as a rare phenomenon
Is suicide rational?
Preventing suicide
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