SOC 202 Section 4 Group A
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Group A Questions on "Suicide in America Revisited" by Kevin Breault and Dustin Brown. pp. 25-32 in Empirical Approaches to Sociology. Answer in complete sentences.
1. In the study done for this article, Breault and Brown find that social integration can be measured at the county level by three variables. What are those three variables and do the findings support or refute Durkheim's hypotheses on suicide? How so?
2. According to Breault and Brown, researchers cannot test Durkheim's hypotheses fully at the aggregate level because they are lacking measures of some variables at the aggregate level (such as county level). Discuss two variables at the aggregate level that researchers do not have and that may account for the relationship between integration and suicide found in Breault's and Brown's analysis.