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sethabrutyn, 4 months ago

This view surprisingly comports with the neuroscience behind affect and motivation. Through this lens we build a proactive, desirous conception of the self. This proactive self contrasts with the conventional soc view of self as habitual or routine, and reactive when problems are experienced or when expectations and reality are incongruent. Instead, the self is an active maker of situations as much as those situations make them

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sethabrutyn, 5 months ago

Consequently, we can conceptualize a more generic process by which groups or classes of ppl exp social pain. It can become a part of their collective identity, collective memory even. Most imp, by using neuroscience, we can draw strong claims about the cognitive and behavioral consequences collectivized social trauma produces, as well as the pathological outcomes for mental health

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sethabrutyn, 8 months ago

A community-based study on the social roots of #youth #suicide and some sociological suggestions for #suicideprevention and #mentalhealth promotion. It is a one-of-a-kind. The book works to illuminate how this community struggled, what it did right, and what lessons we might learn for other communities struggling.

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sethabrutyn, 9 months ago

And while your thinking about this, here is an essay on teaching classical theory. #sociology

https://sethabrutyn.com/2019/09/20/the-pedagogical-dead-end-known-as-classical-sociological-theory/

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sethabrutyn, 1 year ago

But, then, in Suicide he argued underindividuation could kill a person, compelling them to self-sacrifice for the good of society. Notably, he argued these types of suicide were rare in modernity, straining credulity to make a less-than compelling case for military deaths in the later part of the chap. Instead, it was Hindu Sati, martyrdom, & slaves dying so they could be on hand for their master's next life

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sethabrutyn, 1 year ago

Thus, we have a (supposedly) general theory w/ one type being deemed empirically irrelevant and a theoretical mystery (if integration is protective, how can it become unprotective?). We tackle these problems in this paper, arguing that too much integration has myriad weaknesses.

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sethabrutyn, 1 year ago

1. Too few accessible roles raise the stakes for playing those roles well and not threatening our access to those roles; 2. tighter-knit networks spread culture, including harmful culture, much more readily; 3. fewer alternatives for social relationships increase the likelihood of lower quality, higher solidarity relationships; and 4. sudden disruptions are more deadly to tight-knit systems.
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