SOC 1100 Chapter All : SOC FINAL EXAM SUMMARY

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1100
• Professor: Deanna Behnke- Cook

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4- sociology: is the systematic study of human society it is the heart of sociology. Peter berger=the sociological perspective is seeing the general in particular. Sociologists identify general patterns in the behavior of particular individuals. Society acts differently on various categories of people (children vs. adults, women vs. men, poor vs. rich) 5- the sociological perspective reveals the initially strange idea that society shapes what we think do. 7 emile durkheim: men, protestants, wealthy people and unmarried had higher suicide rates than women, Catholics and jews, the poor and married people. He explained that differences in the terms of social integrations: Categories of people with strong ties had low suicide rates, and more individualistic categories of people had high suicide rates. Men had much more freedom than woman but freedom weaken social tires which increases the risk of suicide. Likewise, more individualistic protestants were more likely to commit suicide than the traditional catholic and jews who encourage stronger social ties.