SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Social Fact, Egotism, Structural Functionalism
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Not concerned about certain individual action, but on how society affects/ shape individual action. The division of labour and types of solidarity: When people are less connected with society. Mental illness and individual failed = characteristics of society. Different rates of sucide across different time eras, different societies, etc Groups that have high rate of suicide have low social integration. Ex: single people are more likely to commit suicide than people in families. Ex: protestants are more likely to commit suicide than catholics. Cause: egoism - self centered, most important thing in the world. Over history: suicide rates went up when there were economic crisis and economic boom. Ex: someone with no money has all the money, someone with all the money has no money. Society goes through a change too quickly that an individual doesn"t know where they stand/ what their role is. Both represent a weaker connection to society, which durkheim saw as.
