SOCA02H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Legacy Preferences, Incest Taboo, Parricide

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Durkheim showed that suicide rates: decrease with social solidarity and increase with anomie. Social solidarity: deals with ties to other people. I. e. family, friends, networks of people, community people that you can tell anything to (people that you trust) the more solidarity you have, the lower the rates of committing suicide. Anomie: social change as producer of anomie, change in your life. Anomie tend to grow with age. (men have more anomie) Rural vs. urban: rural has more social solidarity (tv ruined that, urban has more anomie: less interaction/conversations with neighbours, more computers, etc. Social laws equivalent to the laws of nature (physics & Functionalism: order, harmony and continuity based on inequality, racism, etc. Successful socialization is critical for stability; hence focus on the family to instil values. Each part of society plays a role in holding it together, just like a self-regulating organism/mechanism, every part contributes. (biological metaphor by emile durkheim)

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