SOCIOL 1A06 : 2009-2010

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 1A06
• Professor: Sandra Colavecchia

Document Summary

Dr. colavecchia: the sociological imagination and sociological theories. Altruistic suicide: occurs in the setting that exhibit high levels of social solidarity, according to. Anomic suicide: occurs in the settings that exhibit low levels of social solidarity. Results from vaguely defined norms governing social behaviour. **conflict theory: generally focuses on large, macro level structures, such as the relationship between or among classes. It shows how major patterns of inequality in society produce social stability in some circumstances and social change in others. It stresses how members of privileged groups try to maintain their advantages while subordinate groups struggle to increase theirs. And it typically leads to the suggestion that eliminating privileges will lower the level of conflict and increase the sum total of human welfare. Dysfunctional consequence: are effects of social structures that create social instability. Egoistic suicide: results from a lack of integration of the individual into society because of weak social ties to others.