SOC231H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Collective Identity, Altruistic Suicide, Alcoholism
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Identify social facts to explain the phenomena that scientists use. He is happy with it, not philosophical but go do real research. Social facts: they are external and coercive to individual behavior. Normative order of you pursuing a degree, expected to get an university degree from friends, family and neighbors, peer and family expectations. Phenomenon of language: how we communicate with each other. Speculate and theorize about the logical rule of language. Empirical and external: learn language as children and adults. Language is coercive, not using language and see how you do. It"s emerging as a significant social problem in the industrializing and modernizing society. It should be individual, he felt the way suicide has been approached as individual pathology, individual self destruction. Census data on people"s religious affiliation and cause of death, registered having committed suicide. Compare rates between different groups, nationalities within groups across time: empirical and historical data.
