ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Symbolic Power, Social Fact, Anomie
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Relationship between individual choice and certain circumstances that shape us. Structure = large scale social forces, exisiting outside of you, what you do and how you act e. g. social systems, society, neighborhoods, political systems, ideologies, Agency = microlevel, concerns a person"s ability to act independently and act with free will. Guided by own desires, and nothing without own free will. The people in his book, in trying to struggle for the exclusion and subordination they face (race and class based) Social facts and social structures can explain suicide rates. Suicide can not be solely identified through psychological, but it is tied to social structures and social narcotics. Integration (degree to which you feel attached to society, other people, and the place you live) Regulation (degree of regulating constraint on people, the constraint of disallowing free will) Result of lack of integration of indivudal in the society. Concept of "anomie" (similar state of mind/ relationship to society)
