Topic > Durkheim's study of suicide illustrates the deductive process...

Brunilda KolajProfessor NeufieldSociology 1013 March 2014Exam one1. As discussed in class, Mills argues that the sociological perspective allows us to understand how broader historical and social factors influence our lives and experiences as individuals. Explain how this idea applies to reading Gaines in terms of the social and historical factors that explain teen suicide pacts or reading Romero regarding the treatment of domestic workers. A. Mills' idea applies to Gaines's reading because2. Explain how Durkheim's study of suicide illustrates the deductive model of sociological research.A. Deductive research allows you to develop a theory by starting with a theory and collecting data to prove it. Emile Durkheim's hypothesis was that suicide rates would vary based on religion, marital status, military status, and economic conditions. After formulating his hypothesis, he decided to understand whether his theory was true or not. After testing his hypothesis, Durkheim's analysis led him to identify four distinct patterns of suicide. The three most commonly cited models are selfish suicide, altruistic suicide, and anomic suicide. Its results were valid and reliable.3. Let's say you want to do research to learn about the causes of drug use among teenagers in Connecticut. Explain how you might create a sample of adolescents to study using random sampling, convenience sampling, and snowball sampling, and discuss a limitation of each sampling method. A. If I wanted to do research to discover the causes of drug use among adolescents in Connecticut, I would have to collect a lot of data using sampling methods such as random, convenience, and snowball sampling. If I were to do a random sampling, I would imagine... in the center of the paper... the polar distributions of power, wealth and prestige in societies. These shape the patterns of everyday life as well as such things as racial, ethnic, and class inequality and relationships between nations and regions of the world. This is also how it applies to individuals in today's American society, let's say two servers compete with each other for who does a better job to get promoted to get a higher salary and better working conditions. Today ideology plays an important role in politics, the principles and ideas of George W. Bush are a perfect example of this. He used his power as president to start the war in Iraq. Still angry about the September 11 attack, the people of the United States agreed with his decision. As reality set in and they realized that people were losing their lives to the war, many people who were once okay with the conflict began to wish the war had never started.9.