SOCI 1001 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Anomie, For Marx, Margaret Wente

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 1001
• Professor: Charles Gibney

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7: c, a, d, d, b, c, c, c, d, a, d, b, identify and describe the four types of suicide in durkheim"s theory of suicide" with examples of what types of people these affect. Society"s regulation of individuals" impulses passions is too weak. Insufficient social limits imposed on peoples wants and desires: market society: regulation mostly economic, so people who experience sharp increase or decrease in wealth would be vulnerable, examples: celebrities, professional athletes, bankrupt entrepreneurs, divorcees, lottery winners, fatalistic suicide. Individuals are over-regulated and too extensively controlled by society or the state: not a form of suicide discussed by durkheim in great detail, too little freedom, autonomy, and liberty, examples: married men, slavery. Durkheim based his research on statistics and differences in rates of suicide between groups: present the four stages in which mead"s theory of the self" develops.