SOCA01H3 Midterm: Midterm
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* analyzing suicide sociologically test the claim that sociology takes a unique, surprising and enlightening perspective on social events. You should focus on their individual states of mind rather than on the state of the society. Emile durkheim suicide is an act of individual that results from a psychological disorder. Suicide rates tend to be high where rates of psychological disorder are high, and low where rates of psychological disorder are low. Social solidarity the more beliefs and values a group"s members share, the more frequently and intensely they interact, the more social solidarity the group has. Social structures stable patterns of social relations according to sociologists. Macrostructures are patterns of social relations that lie outside and above your circle of intimates and acquaintances. Class relations, bureaucracies, and patriarchy (the traditional system of economic and political inequality between women and men in most societies). Global structures third level of society that surrounds and permeates us.
