SOC 2106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Émile Durkheim, Samuel A. Stouffer, The American Soldier

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2106
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

One of the big three theories (karl marx, weber) Interested in social facts i. e. the effect of social structure on behavior. Famous work le suicide studies cross-cultural differences in suicide rates. Society of saints, you would still have deviants there will always be people acting differently then other people. Conformity; deviant not conforming to what everyone else wants. Society needs social control to regulate their wants and behaviours. A condition of normlessness: the norms that we normally deal with or are used to are no longer there, ex. Results from rapid social change e. g. industrialization: slight baby boom from 911 (people wanted to feel close to others) Dissonance between the culturally specified goals and the culturally available means to achieve goals. Access to means is stratified, but goals are universal. Lower class experiences strain between goals and means choose illegitimate means. Merton"s typology of adaption to anomie (picture in textbook) Status frustration: delinquent boys engage in non-utilitarian behavior.