Module 3 discusses social inequality and forms of social stratification. Minorit

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Module 3 discusses social inequality and forms of social stratification. Minority groups have less control over their life chances and discriminated against. Examples of minority group include people of color in terms of race and ethnicity; women in terms of gender; the elderly and children in terms of age; the poor in term of class; gays and lesbians in terms of sexual orientation; and people with disabilities. Some students consider teenagers as minority group as they are discriminated against sometimes and as they are more likely to be pulled over in highways and so on. Life is precious but some people with problems try to commit suicide. Please watch the short move Parallel Tracks and respond to the following questions.

Do you think that people with minority status are more likely to suffer from depression? What are the main causes of depression and what are the effective treatments?

What causes people to commit suicide from sociological perspectives? How do we cope with suicide?

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Do you think that people with minority status are more likely to suffer from depression? What are the main causes of depression and what are the effective treatments? What causes people to commit suicide from sociological perspectives? How do we cope with suicide?

Yes, I think people with minority status are more likely to suffer from depression, than people who consider the,selves or fall in the majority category. One of the most common and simply understood reasons is the fact that minorities are discriminated against. A person goes into depression due to a number of reasons, most of them being social. Depression does not come to a person as a reason of their genes, and even if some people do have that sort of a sensitive behaviour, it could be rectified with the help of interactions that come from thesociety. Since, humans are social beings, they function the best when they find the,selves in and amongst the society, with positive interactions and social encouragement. When a person begins to face exactly the opposite of that, being bullied at, isolated from only because of the colour of skin that they wear or the capital background that their parents have, and not given the consideration that they deserve on the basis of their own abilities, a person begins to feel low on morale, underconfident, they begin to think that there must be something wrong with them itself, they begin to lose confidence and try to be like someone else in order to match their identity. They begin to try and cope up, and fail at the same time, because they tend to push themselves to work exactly opposite to what they are, exercise their own identity. And hence, they begin to feel depressed, further separating themselves from the crowd, getting lower academic scores, and ultimately trying to take their lives.

I order to treat depression, it is important that there have to be complete support from not only family, but also from the peers, classroom, teachers and every person who is involved in the lives of the person who is suffering from depression. It is important that the person is invited and involved in most of the social gatherings and the friends tru go up their morale by giving the, the respect that they deserve. Also, it is important that the person acknowledges the fact that he is suffering from depression and has the will to come out of it. Only after that his friends and family could help him cope up. Also, the doctor might suggest him certain antidepressants, dosage and effectively depending upon the type and intensity of depression that he is going through.

In order to cope with suicide, a person has to be stopped before he would want to try and end his life. Suicide is one of the most exteeame cases of depression where a person imagines himself to be completely useless and that no one cares for him and that no in would feel the requirement to have him in his life. Only under certain conditions would a person want to commit suicide, and in order to cope with the same, it has to be taken care that the person is treated sensitively and is tried to be taken out of that phase. Also, it is important that the person has to be made or felt important and that he has his place in the live show of many people.

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