intro

systemaic study of human behaviour

F

it refers to intensity and frequency of social interactions and suicide will increase in result ot lack of social solidarity

• altruistic-individual actions are often in interest of group
• ex: kam pilots
• suicide bombers

• egoistic or anomic
• egoistic-result from lack of integration of individual into society because of weak social ties to others ex:school shooting
• Anomic-more to do with society at large ex: when you live in a society that lacks shared code of mortality anomic suicide high

• fatalistic
• ex: prisoners

• -examines individual behaviour
• -initmate social relations
• ex-families, friends and work associations

• occurs at national level ( study of social instituions)
• patriarchy which includes political and economic inequality bewteen men and women

allow partsd of world to become interconnected culturally, economically and politically

post modern!

• way of thinking why humans do what they do
• science of society is possible

people control society and can change it

presented social thinkers with a host of pressing social problems crying out for a solution

explanation of social life that states why and how certain facts are related

asses validity of a theory

ideas about what is right, wrong, good and bad

• main focus is values
• conservative theory
• influential theory of society
• human behaviour governed by stable patterns of social relations or social structures
• lack of social bonding result in anomie; feeling of normlessness or without purpose which could result to suicide
• social structures mainly based on shared values
• re establish equilibrium can solve most social problems

• comunist society at macro level
• can differnetiate between two groups in society: bourgeoisie(rich) and proletariat (poor) which compete for means of production (wealth)
• conflict theory examine forces that pull society apart
• eliminating provilege will lower level of conflict
• never earn the value of what you are producing at work (rich get richer, poor get poorer)

• Weber was conflict theorist
• Found flaws in Marx's work
• believed capitalism was one of several factors that influenced social behaviour
• examined political and religious influences on human behavious
• "verstehende sociology" ( meaning behind human action)

• -micro sociological level
• -humans act toward things on the basis of the meanings they have for us which is developed by interaction of others
• people create their own social circumstances and do not merely react to them

• patriarchy: system of male domination should be examined
• patriarchy should be explored at micro level and macro level of inquiry
• patriarchy should be eliminated

T

• NOT A THEORY
• all existing theories not good at explaining human behavious
• "theories dont work"
• mass media creates fantasy world we live in