SOC 1100 Chapter 1: Chapter 1 Notes

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Sociological perspective: seeing the general in the particular. Sociologists: identify general patterns in the behavior of particular individuals. Society acts differently on various categories of people. Using the sociological perspective is first seeing the strange in the familiar, factors include socio-economic background, race, ethnicity, religion. Durkheim found that categories of people were more likely to take their own lives: men, protestants, wealthy people, unmarried. Social integration: explained by durkheim, categories of people with strong social ties had low suicide rates, and more individualistic categories of people had high suicide rates. Aboriginal communities are still experiencing massive social change therefore durkheim would have argued that affects levels of social integration by putting norms and values into a state of flux. Black men and women had lower suicide rates that white men and women. Sociological imagination: created by mills, helps people understand not only their society but also their own lives because the two are closely related.

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