The statistics indicate that the number of people who commit suicide every year is approximately 3 thousand in Turkey.
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(...) suicide rates are higher in times of peace than times of war; and higher in times of economic crisis than times of economic welfare.
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C.W.Mills used the "sociological imagination" phrase to explain the need to move away from viewing problems as personal and to recognize them as social issues. The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within the society.
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Sociology as a social science has its origins in the effort to understand the transformation from the traditional society to the modern society.
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At the meso level sociologists study the experiences of groups and the interactions between groups.
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Although the concept of society is often used to refer to a nation, they are different concepts. The concept of nation is a political category, and refers to a pretended unity which involves official recognition. As a political category, a nation cannot subsist on its own; nations generally subsist through the agency of their states. Society, on the other hand, is a praxis, which is established by mutually bounded social relations. Societies are not political units; they are not administered by the politicians. Societies administer themselves, they can subsist on their own, they do not need any agency. (...) Every nation is a society, but not every society is a nation. Society is not the totality of people; it is the totality of the mutual relationships among a community of people who share a specific territory, a specific culture and common social institutions.
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Types of society
In the most general level, societies before the 18th century are called “traditional societies”. In the Western world, the majority of the traditional societies transformed through Enlightenment, Scientific and Political Revolutions and the Industrial Revolution, and a new society emerged. This new type of society is called
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Social action is an action which is oriented towards the past, present or future actions of the other people. (...) if an action is made towards other people’s actions, it is a meaningful social action.
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Social structure is the perpetual, continuous and organized relations among the groups and social institutions that consist the society.
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(...) social institutions are a totality of perpetual rules which are important for the maintenance of the structure and main values of the society. Social institutions include thoughts on how to reach the aims that are considered significant. The process of a social practice to become regular and perpetual enough for being a social institution is called institutionalization (Johnson, 2000:157). The main social institutions, family, religion, economy, education, health and politics exist in every society, although sometimes they appear in different forms.
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