Introduction

The course

Grades
The final grade (4th module) for the course is 0,4*1-2 module grade + 0,4*3-4module grade + 0,2*final exam.
The 1-2 module grade is 0,16*project paper + 0,16* collective presentation + 0,08 *classroom discussions + 0,4*test grade + 0,2* intermediary exam.
The 3-4 module grade is 0,2*project paper grade + 0,2*collective presentation + 0,1*classroom discussion + 0,5*tests grade.
To successfully participate in seminars students are expected (1) to submit group project paper to a research assistant (project paper grade), (2) to present group project during a class (collective presentation grade), (3) to participate in classroom discussions (classroom discussion grade).
Individual knowledge is assessed through regular tests with open questions. Students are expected to sit up 3 tests in 1-2 modules & 3 tests in 3-4 modules. If a student has a sick leave for a test date, s/he has opportunity to write test after her/his recovery.

sociology
people in a society
groups
societies

Patterns of action
Benedict The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Love is a natural part of a person life, thus love is widespread in all societies and closely connected with marriage.
In the past families were stable, but today the numbers of broken families grow rapidly.
A person lifespan is defined by her/is genetics and cannot be explained by social circumstances.
All people like material benefits, thus everyone is going to seek financial success if s/he has chances to succeed.
There were wars during all the length of human history, and nowadays we are in danger of especially terrible war because of technological advances. The persistence of war is explained by the fact that humans have aggressive instincts which realized through military actions.
Гидденс 1999

Examples
1. Love and marriage
2. Health and illness
3. ????

1. Love and marriage

1. Love (???) & marriage
“Marriage is no real
excuse for not loving”
Andreas Capellanus
“De Amore” (12 c.)

1. Love (???) & marriage

Sociologists focus on stable patterns of people actions, feeling and thinking
you are in great danger
you have the grim!

1. Love (???) & marriage
“Marriage is no real
excuse for not loving”
Andreas Capellanus
“De Amore” (12 c.)

Edward Laumann (1994) Sexual Networks
1. Love & marriage

1. Love & marriage
Edward Laumann (1994) Sexual Networks

1. Love & marriage
Bearman, Moody & Stovel (2004) Chains of affection

1. Love & marriage
Burt (2004) Structural Holes & Good Ideas

2. Health and illness

2. Health & Illness

Social interaction & disease circulation
Bearman, Moody & Stovel (2004) Chains of affection
Simplest model – random mixing
2. Health & Illness

Youm & Laumann 2002
2. Health & Illness

Emile Durkheim
1858-1917
3. ????
A social fact is any way of acting, feeling, thinking…, given to an individual… and capable to exercise a coercive power over an individual
Study social facts as things

Suicide by Emile Durkheim 1897

Suicide by Emile Durkheim 1897

Suicide by Emile Durkheim 1897

Definition!!!
“the term suicide is applied to all cases of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himself, which he knows will produce this result”
“Самоубийство – всякий смертный случай, являющийся непосредственным или посредственным результатом положительного или отрицательного акта, совершенного самим по­страдавшим, если этот последний знал об ожидавших его результатах”

Suicides:
More in Protestant countries & regions than in Catholic
More in 1848, 1866, 1870-71
More military men than civilian
Less children and old people than adults
More men than women
More unmarried than married
Less often during wars than during piece periods
More often during periods of economic growth and recession
More in cities than in countryside
More educated people in a population, more suicides
More people of high social position than people of low position
Less religious and ethnic minorities than majorities