On Saturday, Franny Chen and Yao Chen were found dead at their small apartement building in King County, Washington. A call was made to 911 by the couples ten year old son who reported to the police that his father had first Shot his mother and then proceeded to take his own life. The neighbor of the couple informed the officer that Yao Chen moved back in the house against the mothers will and continually abused Franny Chen until the day in which he took both of their lives. Yao reportedly lost his job as a restaurant cook and was making zero income and trying to live off of the mothers waitress job income.
I can relate this issue primarily to the crime and suicide topics of sociology. The side of crime that sociologists would classify this case would be a conventional crime, in which all crime is considered violent, certain property crimes, and certain moral crimes. The crime was a violent crime which includes murder. Sociologists would also view this crime in relevance to the social class in which the individual was. For instance, the view of poverty that sociologists would view the case as is absolute poverty which exists when people do not have the means to secure the basic necessities of life. Whereby, Yao Chen, in the lack of money and lack of necessities was unable to secure the basice necessities of his life.
The next sociological explanation for this occurrence is under the category of suicide. The Conflict perspectives would view Yao Chen as in the continuous power struggle for scarce resources (money).
The Essay on Cal Ripken Book View Life
The relationship that this book has with psychology is a very familiar one. One would not expect to look at this book with a psychological view, unless you look into the deeper meanings of Ripken and what his thought process is. The book allows you to see what a boy's point of view of a family that grew up in a modest fashion, with baseball being prevalent throughout his life. After reading the ...
In applying conflict perspectives to suicide, the social class and the social class pressures that were on Yao Chen as well as the mentality that there are few educational or employment opportunities in our technologically oriented in society all caused Yao to think that his decision of ending Franny Chen and his own life were the only way out.
