Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2-11-2026
Department 1
First Year Seminar
Department 2
Interdisciplinary Studies
Abstract
Sociology can look at the numbers and explain to us the physical, concrete facts about when, where, and how suicides happen, but psychology gives us an explanation as to why it happens. This project looks into the ways that 19th century societal stigmas around suicide caused inaccuracies in the statistics that sociologists studied, and therefore their findings, as well as the abundance of discoveries on suicide and mental conditions by psychologists in more recent times.
Copyright Note
This is the author’s work. This publication appears in Gettysburg College’s institutional repository by permission of the copyright owner for personal use, not for redistribution.
Recommended Citation
Mic, Amanda, "Comparing Sociological Suicide Studies in the 1800s to Psychological Suicide Studies Now" (2026). CAFE Symposium 2026. 15.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cafe2026/15
Comments
This poster was created based on work for FYS-W 150: Death and the Meaning of Life and presented as a part of the eleventh annual CAFE Symposium on February 11, 2026.