SOC 271 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Émile Durkheim, The Good Life, Anomie
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Theory that can"t be falsifiable is not a theory. Use the fact itself to attempt to confirm that the fact is true. Hospitalizations to mental illness facilities decreases the farther out from zone 2 you look. However, this isn"t necessarily a sign of mental illness levels. Measures income: richer people can afford therapists (and earlier on) So less likely to be hospitalized for it. A macro theory (explains rates of deviance rather than individuals) Anomie : state of normlessness - a society without a strict normative order. Personal apirations are contained by the social order, usually. But there"s different social order in the city. People started moving into the city on a large scale. Theory states that everyone"s ambitions could become over-blown. If norms don"t contain our aspirations, humans would aim too far. Never achieving, which leads to more disappointment. Compared to lower goals and achieving them. There"s a disconnect between realistic goals and the values of society.
