SOC101Y1 Lecture Notes - Central Dogma Of Molecular Biology
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Lecture 1 (slides at: projects. chass. utoronto. ca/soc101y/brym) notes: life is finite, so we are compelled to make decisions. Since our time is limited we must try to avoid making mistakes. Durkheim wrote the seminal book of sociology : suicide, and suicide is a very anti-social act (also rare). Main argument was that the rate of suicide (per 100. 000 ppl) in any given category of population, is a function not so much of the s tate of mind of the ppl commiting suicide, rather it is a measure of the society. "s relationships. (women suffer 3 times neurosphimia than men, yet men commit suicide much more of ten) (between religions he found protestans to be most suicidal, yet jewish ppl had m ore neurosphimia) he didnt find positive correlations. Thus social relations are different in different categories of population. Jews were already being persecut ed and thus were a tightly knit group (which acted as a safeguard against psych distress).
