Week 104 - Social, psychological, and anthropological factors Flashcards
What is positional objectivity?
The personal views of the observer has a profound effect on how they interpret what is being observed
List the psychological perspectives of suicide
Psychoanalytic model: Freud
Cognitive model: Beck
Congnitive-Behavioural model: Wenzel and Beck
Multi-dimensional model: Schneidman and Leenaars
Which psychological suicide model is associated with:
- traumatic event
- unbearable psychological pain
- escaping pain to end conscious thinking
Multidimension model - Schenidman and Leenars
Which psychological suicide model is associated with:
- depression and feelings of hopelessness
- negative expectations and views of self
- death more desirable than life
- involuntary thoughts = only meaningful thoughts
Cognitive behavioural model - Wenzel and Beck
Which psychological suicide model is associated with:
- polarised thinking i.e. views of the world in extremes
- problem solving deficit + inflexible rigid thinking
- future bleaker with suicidal thoughts / present focus only
Cognitive model - Beck
Which psychological suicide model is associated with:
- motivation by unconscious intentions
- loss and rejection => root cause of suicide
- a desire for self punishment
Psychoanalytic model - Freud
What are the two types of sociology?
Quantitative
- scientific approach using positivism (knowledge based on sense experience)
Qualitative
- social science approach (distinct difference to science)
What are the 4 types of sociological perspectives identified by Durkheim?
Egoistic - self centred (under integration)
Altruistic - for the good of others (over integration)
Anomic - social isolation (under regulation)
Fatalistic - no choice (over regulation)
Which Durkheim perspective describes suicide as self centred and under integration in society?
Egoistic
Which Durkheim perspective describes suicide as for the good of others and under integration in society?
Altruistic
Which Durkheim perspective describes suicide as a result of social isolation, i.e. under regulation?
Anomic
Which Durkheim perspective describes suicide as a result of no choice?
Fatalistic
What is psychological suicide?
The intentional act of suicide
What is sociological suicide?
A meaningful social act within a social group
What is anthropological suicide?
Suicide as a performance of an accepted cultural act
- i.e. revenge suicide = to make others feel guilty
