SOCA01H3 Lecture : Lecture 1
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Especially when you try to solve a problem you see social forces. a leader will emerge to organize activities. Ii) example: stratification => social inequality: social structures keep reappearing generation after generation. => common values, beliefs: high level of integration = high level of common sharing and conformity, line-up behaviour (going to the back of a line) is a custom that people share, social integration = social solidarity. produced by common ethnicity, tribes, family, work: constrained = held back from doing whatever you want, held back from being too individualistic. Intermediate levels of social integration result in the lowest levels of suicide: durkheim s u-curve, egoistic suicide is found in our society (organic solidarity) more deviance (doing things most others don t) people can do their own thing: have green hair, more breaking rules, crime. you can hide in modern societies (from significant othersi think he was making a joke)
