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| is a relatively new discipline in comparison to chemistry, math, biology, philosophy and other disciplines that trace back thousands of years. |
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| Sociology began as an intellectual/philosophical effort by a French man named |
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| Auguste Comte (1798-1857) |
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| is the objective and value-free observation, comparison, and experimentation applied to scientific inquiry. |
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| a technological development of knowledge and manufacturing that began in the late 1600s and continued until the early 1900s. |
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| applied to classes within society and that the wealthy aristocrats were the fittest and so they survived and prospered in society. |
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| phenomena within society that typically exists independent of individual choices and actions. |
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| is the degree to which people are connected to their social groups |
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| is a state of relative normlessness that comes from the disintegration of our routines and regulations. |
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| is the purposeful ending of one’s own life for any reason. |
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| is the number of suicides per 100,000 people in a population. |
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is suicide which occurs when people are over involved and over committed to a group or society as a whole.
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| is suicide which occurs when people are under-involved or under-committed to groups. |
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| is suicide which occurs when people are under-regulated by familiar norms that serve as anchors to their social reality. |
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| is suicide which occurs when people are over-regulated or over-constrained. |
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as the abstract description of social phenomena by which actual social phenomena may be compared.
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are given as hypothetical examples that we can use for comparison.
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