SOCI 217 Study Guide - Final Guide: Content Analysis, Data Analysis, Anomie
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Unobtrusive research: studying social behaviour without affected it. Includes using existing statistics, historical/comparative research, and content analysis: using existing statistics: drawing on data analyzes reported by others (ex: gov"t agencies) Different than secondary analysis, where researchers observe others" data then undertake their own statistical analysis. Provides the main data for social scienti c inquiry. Aims to discover the environmental conditions that encourage/discourage suicide. First, he discovers 1) stability of suicide rates, 2) disproportionate number of suicides occurred in summer. Then, he started to explore the role of age, gender, religion, etc. Finds that predominantly protestant countries had consistently higher suicide rates than catholic countries -> religion plays a signi cant role in suicide! Finally, he combines religion with political turmoil. Suicides are a product of anomie, normlessness, or a general sense of social instability and disintegration. We all want coherence and solidarity -> catholicism gave us that then protestant. **concludes/ nds the concept of anomic suicide (anomie)
