LMAOO i did 2 hours of suicide yday, i'm and i still did it. Revised Durkheims study - comparitive method, took stats from various european counties, based them on the size of the population in which they occured.
Then did social integration - way people are bound together
Under - Egoistic - Catholics and Protestants
Over - Altruistic - Suicide bombers - people lose their individulim
Social Reg - Unwritten rules of behaviour - socialisation - norms
Anomic - Pop stars over time - Wall street crash in 1929
Fatalistic - Slaves, wives are barren
Durkheim based his study on
society is a social fact
there are social facts within different societies
social facts are social forces
social forces may influence people to take their lives
social facts are things
social facts are scientific
social facts are quantitifable
each society has its own temprament, unchaingable because of periodic beliefs with different societies.
durkheim argued society was an external force, which restricted members and their behaviour. Even though people go and out of society, society will always remain the same. They adapt to social rules, and externally are contrained by social facts.
He argued that their are social facts within society, and each society has its own temprament, he argued that suicide rates would remain the same over a long period of time only if social forces within that society remains unchangable.
He wanted to prove his idea of suicide being a social fact caused by social forces, and wanted to prove it by taking out a scientific study in various countries over a long period of time. For example sucide rates in italy (1866 - 70) was 30, (1871-75) 35 and in (1874 - 78) was 38. Which he then used his comparitve method to compare different countries rates.
He was adament of suicide and though it was the most individual act any one could take "action of the inidividual". Instead of looking at individuals motives he wanted to look at societies, social forces which influence.
When he found his statistics he wanted to examine the social forces in different societies that influence.
Is there anything else i need to know in terms of positivism? need to do interp yet