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Have a sociological question for our bloggers? Ask us and it may appear as part of a future post!. MAKING SENSE OF THE SENSELESS: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE ON MAS* SHOOTINGS. You cant make sense of the senseless, said one of the police officers in response to the Borderline shooting on November 7, 2018, in Thousand Oaks, California. This statement really struck me. Shouldnt we at least try? This is what social scientists do; they try to make sense of the seemingly senseless. So how can we make sense of the phenomenon of mas* shootings? is that it is anger, not mental illness, causes violence. Violence is not a product of mental illness. Nor is violence generally the action of ordinary, stable individuals who suddenly break” and commit crimes of pas*ion. Violent crimes are committed by violent people, health community has not found appropriate diagnoses for anger disorders, prevention measures, or a specific framework to help people to comprehend the violence that occurs within their communities. Sociologists, on the other hand, try to look at the bigger picture, zooming out to study external factors such as the impact of social institutions, cultural norms and values, and patterns in the social environment to explain the senseless. Continue reading Making Sense of The Senseless: A Sociological Perspective on Mas* Shootings » A family member’s recent illness and pas*ing highlighted a concept within micro sociology: the definition of the situation behavior within any given context. How we define a situation guides our actions; sometimes our actions might seem strange if others around us define the situation differently. Put simply, people base their behavior on our understanding of events, and we generally ascribe meaning to these events based on our interactions with others. cancer, my father-in-law was healthy enough to play tennis this past August when he fell and broke his hip on the court. Our family defined this situation as a sports-related injury, albeit one with more risks due to his age and overall health status. It seemed that medical