[SY101] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 156 pages long Study Guide!
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Learn how to distinguish between sociological perspective and common sense perspective; think about the world in a way you weren"t aware of. Learn to identify the biases between the perspectives. Provides unique and enlightening perspectives on social events that differ from commonsense understanding. Can be used to analyze how people commonly understand the world. Societal in uence and integration/control vs. sel sh reasoning. Death has a lot to do with de ning how we see the world. French sociologist (1858-1917) [one of the rst] Most well known for his book on suicide. His books challenged how we think of suicide, he challenged that suicide was self interested. We treat suicide as a sel sh act, and the act is out of self interest. By treating suicide as a sel sh or self-interested act, we ignore the social causes of the act and limit what we think of as suicide.
