Sociology 1021E Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: General Position, Feminist Sociology, Rational Agent
23 May 2013
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Major concerns of sociology is to explain why members of other groups behave diff. Small groups that share same status(unionists, doctors) Individuals who may not see themselves as forming groups (having children, being 6ft, living in same province) Sociologists adopt a viewpoint developed over a century ago by emile durkhiem. Argued that social factors- factors pertaining to either group structure or to relationships among individuals in groups- also effect suicide. Social facts: point to social sources or group-level explanation of behavior such as ethnicity, gender, place of residence, and marital status. Study revealed greater frequency of suicide among men, protestants, the older, and the unmarried (social isolation) Individuals may feel trapped, with suicide the only way out. Durkhiem demonstrated how social conditions affect human behavior. Sociologists are concerned with rates of behavior. For example: suicides among men and not the suicide of any one man- and with group differences, comparing, for example, the suicide rates of married versus single adults.
