How did J.J Riordan Come to Die?

But, why? Then its a psychological puzzle

bharath

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He was not just an isolated organism that thought felt and acted ,he was part of something much larger than he was something he neither created nor controlled he participated in a system of social relationships and shared ideas through which he constructed he world and made his choices So what is missing here the fact that he made his choice within a social environment.

social environment

bharath

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Let me reveal more from this graph And more about that incident. He shot himself on November 10,1929 Twelve days after the initial crash of the new York stock market But then how do we reason it out further.. it could have been something else.. Why is this incident so important. He was president of a large bank. He was a middle aged white male banker who lost material wealth but also suffered from intense guilt and a humiliating loss of social prestige. If his position was important to this puzzle we should find similar effects of people who occupied similar social positions.

relationships between individuals but also to the larger social environments in which those relationships exist,

sociology as a point of view

bharath

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Before science the most dominant perspective used would have been on the idea of natural order dictated by god and nature, but in science represented a radical shift towards reason logic and observation away from religious faith.

bharath

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The crash of the stock market and the Great depression that followed didn’t not just happen.. They represent the breakdown of an economic system a way in which humans organized the production and distribution of goods and services, they resulted from a history of events themselves shaped by the ongoing collective process of social life.

So what is sociology ?

It could be said as a systematic study of the social and physical environments and their effects on our experience and behavior as individuals.

Sociological perspectives

interactionist

functional

con�ict

Relationship between the parts of society; How aspects of society are functional (adaptive)

the experience and behavior of individual people

Competition for scarce resources; How the elite control the poor and weak

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