EMILE DURKHEIM
LARGER CONTEXT (Zeitlin, chapter on Durkheim)
SPECIFIC CONCEPTS/THEORY (Macionis + Ritzer + Turner+ Haralambos)
social Solidarity
mechanical solidarity
organic solidarity
functionalism
organic analogy
interdependence
division of labour
suicide
integration
crime is functional
social fact
anomie
pathology
social order
rules of sociological method
religion
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To understand the sociology of Emile Durkheim one must examine his relation to socialist thought and socialist movement.
he was opposed to socialist philosophy
he considered revolutions as politically violent
in opposition to the conception of social change based on classes and class conflict, Durkheim talked about social change based on social solidarity
ideological compromise - socialism vs conservative reaction
adopted from Marx - "social existence determines social consciousness"
function of division of labour-solidarity
interdependence - function of division of labour
mechanical
organic
traditional societies/homogenous societies
modern/heterogenous socieities
repressive law
restitutive law
conscience collective/collective conscience/common consciousness
power of society over individual
normal/pathology
poorly coordianted division of labour
forced division of labour
regulation
the objective reality of social facts
profane
sacred
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anomic