SOC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Solidarity, Dependent And Independent Variables, Historical Method
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Main characteristics of sociology is that it is a social science, pure science, Sociology is the study of human society categorical discipline and not normative, abstract science, generalizing science, general science, both rational and empirical: what is sociological imagination and who coined this term, wright mills coined the term sociological imagination. Sociological imagination is an awareness of the relationship between a person"s behavior and experience and the wide culture that shaped the person"s choices and perceptions. A way of seeing our own and other people"s behavior in relationship to history and social structure. Helps us to connect our personal experience to society at large historical forces. Suicide rates are strongly influenced by social forces (extension factors) Level of solidarity -> variation in suicide rates. Social solidarity is social ties that bind a group together such as kinship, shared location, and religion. Social integration is how well one is integrated into his/her social group or community.
