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Question 1
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What did Durkheim study to explain patterns of suicide?
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Official Statistics
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Suicide notes
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Interviews with suicidals
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Coroners' reports
Question 2
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Why did Durkheim study suicide?
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Because it was deviant
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To understand people's motives for suicide
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To discover the influence of religion on suicide
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To establish Sociology as a University subject
Question 3
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Which two factors did Durkheim say influenced levels of suicide?
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Altruism and Anomie
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Integration and regulation
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Ego and superego
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Fatalism and hopelessness
Question 4
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What were Durkheim's four types of suicide?
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Anomic, egoistic, fatalistic, altruistic
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Atomic, egoistic, ectopic, anomic
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Egoistic, symphsic, fatalistic, ectopic
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Altruistic, symphsic, anomic, atomic
Question 5
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Criticisms of Durkheim from positivists include:
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That he didn't take coroners' assumptions into account
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He treated suicide as just one act
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He didn't define his terms clearly
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He tries too hard to create a causal explanation
Question 6
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Which were the action theorists who disagreed with Durkheim?
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Giddens, Becker, Weber
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Taylor, Walton, Young
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Lemert, Bruce, Hindness
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Taylor, Douglas, Atkinson
Question 7
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Which of the following wasn't said to be an issue coroners use to help them decide if something's a suicide?
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Suicide note
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Mental condition
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Need for revenge
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Mode of death
Question 8
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Which of the following was not a meaning Douglas said people attach to their suicides?
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Transformation of self
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Lack of attachments
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Transforming the self for others
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Achieving fellow feeling
Question 9
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What was Atkinson's methodology?
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Positivism
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Hypothetico-deductive method
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Interpretivism
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Ethnomethodology
Question 10
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Why did Hindness criticise Atkinson?
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He said he was influenced by what he saw as common sense
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He said he failed to take a scientific approach
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He said he had to make assumptions about why people committed suicide
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He said he only looked at small scale research
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