SOCI 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Émile Durkheim, Primitive Communism, False Consciousness
1 Mar 2016
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Peter berger see the general in the particular. C. wright mills said the social imagination is more widespread during social crisis. Social imagination transformed personal problems into public issues. Suicide: suicide rates are strongly influenced by social forces that exert pressure. Forces like collective feelings of normalness, identified by durkheim: anomie is when people do not know what is expected of them in society on the individual as anomie ( floating in society) Women are more involved in social events. 4 men for every 1 woman commits suicide: seniors are more prone to suicide because they are alone and everyone around them their age is dying (loss of spouse) Rapidly changing european world was his focus. Industrial revolution- everything was quickly changing: labours lived in extreme poverty, labour laws did not exist. Observed the early decades of industrial capitalism. Social conflict is the struggle of society over social value. Class conflict arises from the way a society grows.
