SOCA01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Interpersonal Communication, Verstehen, Harriet Martineau
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Canada: emile durkeim: social forces are the reason for sucide rates, married adults are half as likely as unmarried adults to commit sucide. Sucide rates are not due to psychological disorders i. e. jewish people have high psychololgical disorder but very low sucide rates. Sucide and the inny of labrador: aborginal people have the highest rates of sucide, among the innu, the sucide rate is nearly 13 times the rate for all canadians. Innu live in newfoundland and labrador, after they offically became provinces, they wanted to take over innu land to ecoourage economic development they forced the native people to resettlement into more permament settments(sheshatshui and. In the new settlements, they were forced not to practice thier religion, give up their language, beaten if they did not go to church: they got into drugs. Social structures: relativly stable patterns of social relations. Weak friendships/aquitance can give you access to job opporuntities, Patriarchy, class relations, bureaucracies social relationships outside friends/acquitance.