Soc 100 Exam 1, Dr. Fang Gong, Ball State University | Questions And Answers Latest
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Durkheim's normative theory of suicide - Suicide rates are strongly influenced by such social forces as
social integration and social regulation
Social integration - how well you are integrated into your social group or community
Social regulation - the number of rules guiding your daily life
Altruistic suicide - one experiences too much social integration
-ex: 47 ronin
egoistic suicide - suicide that occurs when one is not well integrated into a social group
Anomic suicide - suicide that occurs as a result of too little social regulation
-ex: Stockmarket crash
Fatalistic suicide - suicide that occurs as a result of too much social regulation
ex: prisoners/slaves, dictatorships
Auguste Comte - coined the term sociology
Sociology - the study of human society
Sociology Characteristics - - study of individuals as members of a group
- Study of systematic patterns (not randomness)
- Study of individual outcomes as consequences of greater social forces
- Study of both macro-structures & micro-level interactions
, sociological imagination - ABILITY to see the connection between the larger world and our personal lives
C. Wright Mills - coined the term sociological imagination
Social structure - stable patterns of social relation
Microstructures - patterns of intimate social relations
ex: family, friends, lovers
Macrostructures - patterns of social relations outside your circle of intimates and acquaintances
ex: class, race, gender
Global Structures - international organizations, worldwide travel and communication, and economic
relations between countries
- ex: international orgs
Functionalism - the theory that various social institutions and processes in society exist to serve some
important (or necessary) function to keep society running
- inequality is functional
- optimistic view
- Robert Merton
- based on Macro
- Crime has its functions
Manifest functions - intended and easily observed
Latent functions - unintended and less obvious
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