[SA 150] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (94 pages long)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Suzanna Crage

Document Summary

Sociology is the systematic study of human behaviour in a social context. The industrial revolution changed society a lot. Mile durkheim"s classic and important study of suicide (1897) Durkheim looked at statistics in different areas in europe and found that suicide rates remained fairly constant year by year, but differed across regions. Trends he found suggested something was going on that went beyond individual motivations no correlation of rates of suicide and rates of psychopathology in an area. Suicide rates varied, however by people"s religious affiliation: protestants had higher rates of suicide than catholics and catholics had higher rates than jews. Durkheim didn"t blame religion, but social integration in the different religious communities. Everything is a symbol: round things with colours. Didn"t know much about football and now knows everything. Man doesn"t approve of how those men get away with things off the field (abusing their partner) Theory and research: the influence of disengagement theory.