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What are Durkheim’s 4 types of suicide

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Altruistic
Anomic
Fatalistic
Egoistic

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Define Anomic Suicide

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Too little regulation, anomie, a state of anarchy.
No goals, stress change
No knowledge of how to deal with problems
Eg: after prison or army

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Define Altruistic Suicide

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Over-integration

Eg: suicide bomber, IS, kamikaze, integrated into army or religion thought of afterlife and reward

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Define Fatalistic Suicide

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Dying anyway ‘no way out’

Eg: death row, terminal illness, assassin coming for you

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Define Egoistic Suicide

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Isolated and alone
Not involved in society
Individuality

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Parson’s Functional PreRequisites

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Adaptations
Goal-Attainment
Integration
Latency

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Expand on Parson’s concept of adaptation

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  • employment
  • power
  • shelter
  • food/water
  • necessities to function, adapt environment, operationalise it
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Expand on Parson’s concept of goal attainment

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  • qualifications
  • grades
  • life skills
  • personal targets
  • government applied targets
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Expand on Parson’s concept of integration

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  • involvement
  • support
  • keeping control
  • socialisation and learning rules
  • police, family, media, peers, religion
  • formal and informal control
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Expand on Parson’s concept of latency

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  • reinforce core values
  • socialisation
  • Norms and values
  • shared identity
  • coming together
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Parson’s three systems for institutions to feature

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Personality - beliefs, goals, values
Social - institutional expectations
Cultural - core values and shared history

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Expand on Parson’s pattern variables

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Affectivity vs neutrality
Specificity vs diffuseness
Universalism vs particularism

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Explain universalism vs particularism

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Application of general or specific social rules with people during interactions
Family-particularistic (priority treatment)
Strangers on street-universalistic

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Explain specificity vs diffuseness

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Act in regard to one interest or a number of interests
Roles-specific
Employer employee relationship
Boyfriend/girlfriend sees you in most social roles

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Explain affectivity vs neutrality

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Emotional or rational behavior
Emotional-family friends
Rational-employer stranger

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Parson’s Functional PreRequisites

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Adaptations
Goal-Attainment
Integration
Latency

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Expand on Parson’s concept of adaptation

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  • employment
  • power
  • shelter
  • food/water
  • necessities to function, adapt environment, operationalise it
18
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Expand on Parson’s concept of goal attainment

A
  • qualifications
  • grades
  • life skills
  • personal targets
  • government applied targets
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Expand on Parson’s concept of integration

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  • involvement
  • support
  • keeping control
  • socialisation and learning rules
  • police, family, media, peers, religion
  • formal and informal control
20
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Expand on Parson’s concept of latency

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  • reinforce core values
  • socialisation
  • Norms and values
  • shared identity
  • coming together
21
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Parson’s three systems for institutions to feature

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Personality - beliefs, goals, values
Social - institutional expectations
Cultural - core values and shared history

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Parson’s Functional PreRequisites

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Adaptations
Goal-Attainment
Integration
Latency

23
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Expand on Parson’s concept of adaptation

A
  • employment
  • power
  • shelter
  • food/water
  • necessities to function, adapt environment, operationalise it
24
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Expand on Parson’s concept of goal attainment

A
  • qualifications
  • grades
  • life skills
  • personal targets
  • government applied targets
25
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Expand on Parson’s concept of integration

A
  • involvement
  • support
  • keeping control
  • socialisation and learning rules
  • police, family, media, peers, religion
  • formal and informal control
26
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Expand on Parson’s concept of latency

A
  • reinforce core values
  • socialisation
  • Norms and values
  • shared identity
  • coming together
27
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Parson’s three systems for institutions to feature

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Personality - beliefs, goals, values
Social - institutional expectations
Cultural - core values and shared history

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Summarise Merton’s strain theory

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Not everyone has value consensus
Believes Parson’s omitted motivation for material gain
Recognises difficulty faced by certain groups
Manifest functions-apparent functions
Latent functions-unintended functions
Assumption of indispensability
Functional unity

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What are Durkheim’s 5 crucial factors explaining why people had become so unhappy in industrial capitalist society

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  • individualism
    Introduction of individual choice in society resulting in claiming credit when things go well and self punishment if things don’t
  • excessive hope
    Hard work leads to success lack of success means self blame
    -too much freedom
    Lack of societal interest in individuals and no answers
  • atheism
    Religion provides community and relationships draws society around it
    -weakening of the nation and of the family
    Patriotism and belonging being part of something bigger than ourselves

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