[Sociology 1020] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (67 pages long)

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 1020
• Professor: Michael Haight

Document Summary

Test question example: a researcher wants to measure the impact of providing school lunches for children living in low income areas. She wants to understand the connection between providing meals for students and their academic performance. Chapters 1-14, approximately 50 questions. (7-8 from chapter 2=scenario type question) At the end of the 19th century, he demonstrated that suicide rates were strongly influenced by social forces: he examined the association between rates of suicide and rates of psychological disorder for different groups. His idea was that if suicide is purely internal (psychological), suicide rates must increase with the number of mental disorders: this idea was not supported by his research, he discovered that: More women suffer from mental conditions/disorders, while the male suicide rate was four times as high. The jewish population suffered the most from psychological disorders and yet still had the lowest suicide rates. Suicide rates also increased with maturity (especially 55+).