A-Level A2 SOCIOLOGY (Crime and deviance: Suicide) Flashcards on POSITIVISM AND SUICIDE , created by ashiana121 on 01/07/2016.
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Where/who did the first major contribution to the sociological understanding of suicide come from?
What is positivism?
According to positivism, what should the goal of sociology be?
Durkheim believed that he could show suicide has ______ causes
For Durkheim, the suicide rate is a ______ ____
What type of data did Durkheim study?
How many regular patterns did he identify?
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What were these patterns evidence of?
Durkheim explains the suicide rate as the effect of ______ _______ _______ ____ ___________
In different social groups, these forces act with different intensities, resulting in...
How many social forces does Durkheim identify that act on individuals and determine suicide rates?
What are they?
What is meant by social integration?
What is meant by moral regulation?
In relation to these, what does Durkheim argue suicide results from?
This gives a classification system of suicide. How many types of suicide are there in this classification system?
What are the names of these?
Which two are typical of pre-industrial societies?
What type of society are egoistic and anomic suicides typical of?
Egoistic suicides result from...
Anomic suicides result from...
Which does Durkheim argue is the most common type of suicide?
Egoistic suicides are caused by excessive _____________
a lack of ______ ____ and obligation to others
What do anomic suicides refer to?
Fatalistic and altruistic suicides are typical of pre-industrial societies. Which one is caused by TOO MUCH integration?
Explain altruistic suicides
Fatalistic suicides are caused by TOO MUCH what?
What does this mean?
Out of the two types of society, modern industrial and traditional pre-industrial, which has higher levels of integration and regulation?
What 2 types of suicide does this mean are typical of pre-industrial societies?
Who are responsible for the other positivist approach to explaining suicide?
What is their main argument about Durkheim's study?
How do Gibbs and Martin go on to define integration?
Where, do Gibbs and Martin argue these tend to occur?
Gibbs and Martin predict that in societies where there is little status integration (e.g where well educated people are forced to work low status jobs) suicide rates will be...
What is another argument of Durkheim study?
