Historical Examples. 1  The dry, the almost sandy sensation of insomnia was upon her. 2  But it is good fun, if exhausting, and a sovereign cure for insomnia.  3 He suffers so from insomnia, I don't blame him, answered Pen. 4  What the world lost by this insomnia of the dreamer the world will never know. The Story of the Mormons William Alexander Linn Let us now consider the case of a person suffering from insomnia.
Like rational choice theory, conflict theory, or functionalism, pure sociology is a sociological paradigm â a strategy for explaining human behavior.Developed by Donald Black as an alternative to individualistic and social-psychological theories, pure sociology was initially used to explain variation in legal behavior.ure sociology, then, can be distinguished from other sociological paradigms by what is absent from it: psychology, teleology, and even people as such. Pure sociology's focus on a unique social reality may sound Durkheimian, but Black views the approach as more Durkheimian than Durkheim..
Normative social influence (NSI) is a type of conformity in which a person or group acts a certain way in public in hopes of fitting in with the norm, even if that behavior doesnât carry over to private life.