SOC101Y1 Lecture : Introduction to Sociology Discusses Amelia Durkheim's studies on suicides, information about suicides, and the three revolutions; scientific, democratic and industrial, which led to the development of sociology.
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Amelia durkheim wanted to see what was causing suicide in 1899. Believed that depression as an antisocial action. Rate number of incidences per x amount of people, not an absolute number. Suicide has deep social causes; it is a form of private rejection. Women are in mental institutions twice as much as men. Sociology strives to understand why people either act the way they do, or what constrains their actions. Where levels of extreme social solidarity exist, suicide will be extremely high. As levels of social solidarity go from low to intermediate, suicides decline, as solidarity moves from intermediate to high, suicides increase. Durkheim believed that society needed to create new groups of social solidarity in an effort to prevent further development of current social problems in france at that time. Seek to identify behaviour or social problem that is regarded as important. Seek to determine patters and relations that influence people to commit this behaviour.
