SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Sociological Theory, George Herbert Mead, The Sociological Imagination
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Provides an unique and enlightening perspective on social events that differs from commonsense understanding (different take on daily events) Can be used to analyze how people commonly understand the world (analyze common sense understanding of the world) Examines patterns of social relations that might encourage or inhibit suicide. Challenges common sense of suicide selfish act it is a isolated act that has nothing to do with society commonsense knowledge. Commonsense knowledge: suicide is an act that is anti-social and non-social. Famous study of suicide rates in france suicide (1897) Durkheim discovered higher rates of suicide among certain categories of people, including: Unmarried (as opposed to married) men (as opposed to women, who are typically more socially connected than men) Christians (as opposed to jews, who are more socially integrated than christians) Seniors (as opposed to the young and the middle-aged) Varied in its rate with degree of :
