SY101 Lecture Notes - Social Isolation, Mass Suicide, Individuation
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Sociological perspectives vs. commonsense perspectives of the social world. Provide unique and enlightening perspectives on social events that differs from commonsense understanding. Can be used to analyze how people commonly understand the world. There are 4 main perspectives that provide an alternative way of looking at the world: functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, feminism. Being socially isolated, bullied, poverty, outcome of war. Suicide rates higher amongst: unmarried men, christians, seniors. Social isolation, marriage at younger ages, christians are part of the majority so they don"t have a tight knit community like. Jewish population is based on, seniors cannot contribute to society through work and have no income, age and death of partners or friends and family, less socially integrated. Two social forces influencing suicide rates: social integration connection between individuals and the group, social control regulating norms, values, expectations, individual responsibilities, etc, suicide if too much or too little, need balance. Egoistic suicide: weak social integration, excessive individuation .
