5In Durkheim’s famous work on suicide, the most important thing he found was tha
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5In Durkheim’s famous work on suicide, the most important thing he found was that
people kill themselves most often when they experience a loss in their life
atheists are less likely to kill themselves
the more strongly tied to social groups people were, the less likely they were to commit suicide
the less strongly tied to social groups people were, the less likely they were to commit suicide
eople from northern climates were more likely to kill themselves
people from northern climates were more likely to kill themselves
6
In most universities and many colleges, young professors must work like crazy to earn tenure. Often, special stress is placed on how much the young professor publishes. One consequence of this is that some faculty don't pay much attention to their teaching (though this isn’t true at CPP since CPP is mainly a teaching institution). A sociologist would most likely call this outcome
a manifest function of the tenure system
a latent dysfunction of the tenure system
a result of the fact that professors are bourgeois
life costs
7
Why do we even bother to greet people at all (e.g., "Hello," "How are you?") and why couldn't we just start talking instead? All are correct except which one?
When we greet people we are reaffirming our connection to them. The degree of that connection (our lover, an acquaintance, our mother, our co-worker...) determines how the greetings might differ in style but people we have some connection to we almost invariably greet. Even strangers are usually greeted by us under the proper circumstances.
Those who don't greet others are considered rude but what is going on unconsciously for most people when they react to rudeness is that the other person isn't affirming their connection to us as fellow social beings and we see that as a threat to our collective life.
Being polite is merely a convention and has no sociological significance. If greetings were abandoned they would have no effect.
If the average person were truly mainly or exclusively selfish, then society itself could not exist.
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Organic solidarity, according to Durkheim, refers to
modern society
pre-modern society
the sameness of everybody
B and C
none of these
Explanation / Answer
5. The correct answer is Option 3. Durkheim found that the more strongly tied to social groups people were, the less likely they were to commit suicide.
6. The correct answer is Option 2. This is an illustration of the latent dysfunction of the tenure system.
7. The correct answer is Option 3. The statement that politeness is merely a social convention and greetings have no effect is incorrect.
8. The correct answer is Option 4, none of the above. Although organic solidarity is a characteristic of modern society, it is a social unity based on a division of labor that results in people depending on each other.
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