Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim

The study of social action
1. Utilitarianism and Durkheim's critique
2. The social significance of expressive action
3. The symbolic character of action
The reality of society
1. The moral character of society
2. The domain of sociology
  1. Social facts
  2. The emergent nature of social facts
3. The study of social facts
The unity of society
1. Mechanical and organic solidarity
2. The individual and society
  1. The institution of contract
Autonomy and constraint
1. The study of suicide
  1. Suicide and social solidarity
  2. The internalisation of the moral order
The solidarity of society
1. The study of religion
  1. Rites
  2. Religion in the modern world
Thought and society
The diagnosis of society
1. The anomic form of the division of labour
2. The forced division of labour
3. Lack of co-ordination
4. Beyond socialism
The aftermath
1. Positivism
2. Structuralism, functionalism, reification, and conservatism
3. Some contributions: Goffman, labelling theory and the structure of human thought

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