SOC100H5 Lecture Notes - Sampling Frame, Harriet Martineau, Elle Woods
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Chapter 1: a sociological compass sociology- the systematic study of human behaviour in social context. Emilie durkheim (one of the pioneers of sociology) demonstrated that suicide is more than just an individual act of desperation that results from psychological disorder, as was commonly believed. Durkheim found that suicide rates are strongly influenced by social forces. He first tried to prove that there was an correlation between rates of suicide and psychological disorder, but he soon found this was incorrect. Instead he discovered that slightly more women than men were in insane asylums and that four male suicides occurred for every female suicide. Also, jews had the highest rate for psychological disorders of all the major religious groups in france, but they also had the lowest suicide rate. Finally, he discovered that psychological disorders occurred most frequently when a person reached maturity, but suicide rates increase steadily with advancing age.
