SY101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Solidarity, Social Inequality, Dependent And Independent Variables
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The sociological perspectives: examine patterns of social relations, provide unique and enlightening perspectives on social events that differs from commonsense understanding, can be used to analyze how people commonly understand the world. Course theme: sociological perspectives vs. commonsense perspectives of the social world: breaking down commonsense understanding of the world and analyzing from various sociological perspectives. 4 main theoretical traditions in sociology: functionalism, conflict theory, symbolic interactionism, feminism, each of the sociological perspective gives you a way to analyze those situations. Emile durkheim"s theory of suicide: one of the founder of sociology, french sociologist (1858-1917, functionalist, suicide (1897) So egotistic . : we ignore the social causes of suicide, we ignore that they are apart of social relationships, social aspects affect them to cause this action. Living in poverty: bullying, going into war, or being put into prison, suicide is a social act not an individual act. Inability to change like to technology: put into senior homes.
