Consult the obituaries or local newspaper stories to locate the most recent suicide. Then using this recent tragedy as an example, detail why you cannot use Durkheim’s theory to explain what this individual did because egoistic, anomic, fatalistic, and altruistic explanations are only inherent in rates.
What will be an ideal response?
• Media tends to gravitate toward psychological explanations of suicide, noting mental illness or individual crisis as the cause
• Durkheim’s types of suicide cannot be applied to a suicide because social facts cannot be observed in the actions of an isolated individual
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a. true b. false
The belief that men and women are different unequal by divine design or nature justifies inequality. Sociologist Cynthia Fuchs Epstein sees this argument as part of the that supports gender inequality
a. sexualization b. gender polarization c. cognitive mechanisms d. structural constraints
Is schooling equally available to all children around the world?Explain your answer
What will be an ideal response?
The negative attitudes held by people in the United States toward obese individuals is
A. understandable because weight is something that can be controlled. B. now accepted as the new normal. C. not stigmatizing because excess fat is unhealthy. D. rooted in norms that define fat bodies as deviant.