Sociology as a science

Question 1

What was Durkheim’s study of suicide surrounding?

Answer 1

How social facts affect people

Question 2

What were the four categories of suicide he came up with?

Answer 2

Integration

Egoistic suicide - too little integration, not enough social bonds and people would not miss them

Altruistic suicide - too much integration, no life of their own and gain it back through suicide

Regulation

Anomic suicide - Little control over our lives (after dramatic economic and social change) results in suicide to regain power

Fatalistic suicide - Too much control in their lives, e.g. incarcerated people regain control by suicide

Question 3

Which perspectives believe sociology can be a science?

Answer 3

Positivists, Kuhn and realists

Question 4

Which perspectives believe that sociology cannot be a science?

Answer 4

Interpretivists, postmodernists and Popper