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THE FOLLOWING EXAMPLES FURTHER ILLUSTRATE HOW SOCIAL FORCES AFFECT A SEEMINGLY PERSONAL MATTER: THE CHOICE OF NAMES, OF HOW WE WISH TO BE IDENTIFIED / KNOWN!
WHAT’S IN A NAME?HOW SOCIAL FORCES AFFECT PERSONAL CHOICES…
IDENTIFY THE FOLLOWING CELEBRITIES WHO CHOSE TO ADOPT / MODIFY THEIR NAME(S):
GUESS WHO?
CHERILYN SARKISIAN
CHER
GUESS WHO?
CHERYL STOPPELMOOR
CHERYL LADD
GUESS WHO?
LARRY ZEIGLER
LARRY KING
GUESS WHO?
NATHAN BIRNBAUM
GEORGE BURNS
GUESS WHO?
PAUL RUBENFELD
PEE WEE HERMAN
GUESS WHO?
GEORGE KYRIAKAO PANAYIOTOU
GEORGE MICHAEL
GUESS WHO?
ANNIE MAE BULLOCK
TINA TURNER
GUESS WHO?
JEROME SILBERMAN
GENE WILDER
GUESS WHO?
BERNADETTE LAZZARA
BERNADETTE PETERS
GUESS WHO?
RAMON ESTEVEZ
CHARLIE SHEEN
GUESS WHO?
HENRY JOHN DEUTSCHENFORF, JR.
JOHN DENVER
GUESS WHO?
ALLEN STEWART KONIGSBERG
WOODY ALLEN
GUESS WHO?
JACOB COHEN
RODNEY DANGERFIELD
GUESS WHO?
LEE YUEN KAM
BRUCE LEE
INDIVIDUALITY IN THE SOCIAL CONTEXT Sociological insights often challenge
common sense by revealing how human behavior is not as individualistic as we may think.
Perhaps the most compelling demonstration of how social forces affect human behavior is the study of suicide.
Why? Because nothing could be more personal
than taking one’s one life.
DURKHEIM
A SOCIOLOGICAL PIONEER EXAMINED THE RECORDS OF SUICIDE IN
HIS NATIVE FRANCE. THE STATISTICS CLEARLY SHOWED THAT
SOME CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE WERE MORE LIKELY THAN OTHERS TO COMMIT SUICIDE. SPECIFICALLY, MORE MEN, PROTESTANTS,
WEALTHY PEOPLE, AND THE UNMARRIED EACH HAD SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHTER SUICIDE RATES THAN WOMEN, CATHOLICS & JEWS, THE POOR, AND MARRIED PEOPLE.
DURHEIM’S CONCLUSION:
REASONED THAT SUICIDE VARIED ACCORDING TO PEOPLE’S SOCIAL INTEGRATION.
LOW SUICIDE RATES, IN OTHER WORDS, CHARACTERIZED CATEGORIES OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE STRONG TIES TO OTHERS.
A CENTRY LATER, STATISTICAL EVIDENCE STILL SUPPORTS HIS ANALYSIS.