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  • March 28, 2023
  • March 30, 2023
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  • study of suicide
  • social facts
  • sociology
  • socl1014a
  • social order
  • traditional soceity
  • mechanical solidarity
  • organic solidarity
  • key institutions
  • durkheim
  • univeristy
  • first y
  • structural functional view
  • wits

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Durkheim's key concepts
Thursday, 16 March 2023 08:00
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Part 1

Lecture Main topics:
○ Who is Durkheim
○ Study of science

Lecture notes:
• Durkheim:
Sociology as sperate discipline
Study of suicide amongst different groups

Subject matter- Social facts (something social about human behavior)
 Relates to social forces (exerts pressure on us, that effects our behavior)
• There are different social facts (material and not material)
 Non material- norms (can lead to different kinds of suicide) indicators- e.g. oppressiveness (strong
regime)
 Material- society itself
• Method- positivism
 Philosophical foundation
 What counts as knowledge of the world is.
 Scientific research
 Has to be measurable

Positivist social science (Social law, positive science)
→ Establishes the probabilistic casual laws of human behavior
→ Involves making hypotheses of relationships between variables and testing these through empirical
investigation

Study of Science
Higher rates (only in his society)
• Protestants vs Catholics & jews (believes and integration of Catholics, more western countries are
individual believes)
• Men vs women (women are more integrated into groups)
• Single people vs married people
• In times of economic change and instability (both up and down)
• Rules of sociological method (1895)
• Suicide (1897) Use social language

Study of suicide amongst different groups

The study of suicide Always define concepts
• Description: different rates for different groups/times Always think of groups when doing Durkheim
• Social facts (non-material)
 Integration- the extent (how much) to which collective norms, values, believes are share.
◊ We are integrated into social groups based on norms, values, believes.
 Regulation- How the norm constraints us- norm, rules control us
◊ Guide us, know what is expected form us
◊ Regulates our behaviour through norms and values
 Social currents- feelings that are shared by the members of the group/ collective feeling of the group
◊ Mood of the group (many)
◊ NOT ABOUT INDIVIDUAL (GROUP!) cannot be reduced to the individual
◊ We contribute to the social group
◊ Can be create/ produce in a public gathering
◊ Exist at the level of your interaction
◊ How do you measure/ observe





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