SOC 2070 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Altruistic Suicide, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity, Anomie

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2070
• Professor: Patrick Parnaby

Document Summary

Positivists believe that the world around us is measurable, observable and objective. Deviant behaviour leads to social solidarity deviant behaviour brings people together with a common solidarity. Deviant behaviour functions to help identify our moral/ethical values and boundaries reminds us what we believe in. Deviant behaviour facilitates social change anytime serious cases of deviant behaviour would occur, durkheim noticed that it was an important catalyst for social change. Nothing coming up is worth living for: genetics and mental illness play a role in suicide, social integration remains a predictor. Immigrants have lower rates of suicide in canada immigrants find people like the and to integrate themselves in those groups as a first priority. Inmates and elderly (especially males) senior citizens are at most risk of suicide because they develop this idea that they are no longer useful and no longer integrated. Distribution of opportunity things like jobs and education. Innovation people come up with their own ways of becoming successful.