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Durkheim claimed that modern society bases integration on the mutual benefits of the division of labour, but noted that the impersonal character of modern urban life caused alienation and feelings of anomie.
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Durkheim claimed that social integration in traditional society required authoritarian culture involving acceptance of a social order.
Going beyond this, Durkheim claimed that sociology would not only discover " apparent " laws, but would be able to discover the inherent nature of society.
Durkheim hoped to discover a pure religion in very ancient forms and generally claimed to see the origin of religion in totemism.
Durkheim and modern
While Durkheim and others examined the state of modern societies, Mauss and his collaborators ( such as Henri Hubert and Robert Hertz ) drew on ethnography and philology to analyze societies that were not as ' differentiated ' as European nation states.
Marx is typically cited, with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.
Marx is typically cited, along with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.
Along with Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim, he is commonly regarded as one of the founders of modern sociology.
Emile Durkheim expanded upon Tönnies ' recognition of alienation, and defined the differences between traditional and modern societies as being between societies based upon " mechanical solidarity " versus societies based on " organic solidarity ".
Durkheim identified organic solidarity-based societies as modern societies where there exists a division of labour based on social differentiation that causes alienation.
Émile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber are typically cited as the principal architects of modern social science by this definition.
However, even if the religion was losing its importance for Durkheim, it still laid the foundation of modern society and the interactions that governed it.
His concept of sociologie and social evolutionism, though now outdated, set the tone for early social theorists and anthropologists such as Harriet Martineau and Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research.
Among the concepts that Tarde initiated were the group mind ( taken up and developed by Gustave Le Bon, and sometimes advanced to explain so-called herd behaviour or crowd psychology ), and economic psychology, where he anticipated a number of modern developments. Tarde was very critical of Durkheim ’ s work at the level of both methodology and theory.
While Durkheim is usually credited for updating Comte's positivism to modern scientific and sociological standards, Ward accomplished much the same thing 10 years earlier in the United States.
The modern meaning should also be compared with the concept of anomie, or a kind of alienation, that Émile Durkheim wrote about in his sociological treatise Suicide.
Durkheim postulated, and more modern research seems to confirm, that social anomie could be translated into behavioural ( attempted suicide ), and attitudinal ( normlessness and powerlessness ) determinants when viewed with regard to its impact upon the family.
Durkheim, Marx, and Weber are typically cited as the three principal architects of modern social science.
The enhanced positivism presented by Durkheim would serve to found modern academic sociology and social research, yet retained many of the mechanical elements of its predecessor.
The modern academic discipline of sociology began with the work of Émile Durkheim ( 1858 – 1917 ).
Durkheim and society
Whereas Durkheim focused on the society, Weber concentrated on the individuals and their actions ( see structure and action discussion ) and whereas Marx argued for the primacy of the material world over the world of ideas, Weber valued ideas as motivating actions of individuals, at least in the big picture.
The Cartesian Other was also used by Sigmund Freud, who saw the superego as an abstract regulatory force, and Émile Durkheim who viewed this as a psychologically manifested entity which represented God in society at large.
The term " social science " may refer either to the specific sciences of society established by thinkers such as Comte, Durkheim, Marx, and Weber, or more generally to all disciplines outside of " noble science " and arts.
Classical, seminal sociological theorists of the late 19th and early 20th century such as Durkheim, Weber, and Marx were greatly interested in religion and its effects on society.
Émile Durkheim placed himself in the positivist tradition, meaning that he thought of his study of society as dispassionate and scientific.
In Elementary Forms, Durkheim argues that the totems the Aborigines venerate are actually expressions of their own conceptions of society itself.
Thus Durkheim became interested in a scientific approach to society very early on in his career.
Although he never explicitly exposed it, Durkheim adopted a realist perspective in order to demonstrate the existence of social realities outside the individual and to show that these realities existed in the form of the objective relations of society.
Durkheim also insisted that society was more than the sum of its parts.
Durkheim argued that social facts have, sui generis, an independent existence greater and more objective than the actions of the individuals that compose society.
Regarding the society itself, like social institutions in general, Durkheim saw it as a set of social facts.
Even more than " what society is ", Durkheim was interested in answering " how is a society created " and " what holds a society together ".
In his Division of Labor in Society, Durkheim attempted to answer the question of what holds the society together.
A key to forming society is social interaction, and Durkheim believes that human beings, when in a group, will inevitably act in such a way that a society is formed.
Durkheim was interested in cultural diversity, and how the existence of diversity nonetheless fails to destroy a society.
As the society, Durkheim noted there are several possible pathologies that could lead to a breakdown of social integration and disintegration of the society: the two most important ones are anomie and forced division of labor ; lesser ones include the lack of coordination and suicide.
According to Durkheim, Catholic society has normal levels of integration while Protestant society has low levels.
Durkheim and integration
Émile Durkheim ( drawing on the analogies between biological and social systems popularized by Herbert Spencer and others ) introduced the idea that diverse social institutions and practices played a role in assuring the functional integration of society through assimilation of diverse parts into a unified and self-reproducing whole.
First there is a primitive integration based on likeness and intimate interaction, which Durkheim called mechanical solidarity and Toennies labelled Gemeinschaft.
Durkheim and on
Compared to Durkheim and Marx, Weber was more focused on individuals and culture and this is clear in his methodology.
However, as the division of labor makes the individual seem more important ( a subject that Durkheim treats extensively in his famous Division of Labor in Society ), religious systems increasingly focus on individual salvation and conscience.
At the ENS, Durkheim studied under the direction of Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, a classicist with a social scientific outlook, and wrote his Latin dissertation on Montesquieu.
Durkheim's period in Germany resulted in the publication of numerous articles on German social science and philosophy ; Durkheim was particularly impressed by the work of Wilhelm Wundt.
Finally, Durkheim's own son, André, died on the war front in December 1915 — a loss from which Durkheim never recovered.
Early on, during his university studies at the Ecole, Durkheim was influenced by two neo-Kantian scholars, Charles Bernard Renouvier and Émile Boutroux.
There were many points on which Durkheim agreed with the positivist thesis.
Durkheim authored some of the most programmatic statements on what sociology is and how it should be practiced.
The vast information Durkheim studied on the aboriginal tribes of Australia and New Guinea and on the Inuit was all collected by other anthropologists, travelers, or missionaries.
Sociology's task thus consists of discovering the qualities and characteristics of such social facts, which can be discovered through a quantitative or experimental approach ( Durkheim extensively relied on statistics ).
By anomie Durkheim means a state when too rapid population growth reduces the amount of interaction between various groups, which in turn leads a breakdown of understanding ( norms, values, and so on ).
Overall, Durkheim treated suicide as a social fact, explaining variations in its rate on a macro level, considering society-scale phenomena such as lack of connections between people ( group attachment ) and lack of regulations of behavior, rather than individual's feelings and motivations.
Out of those three concepts, Durkheim focused on the sacred, noting that it is at the very core of a religion.
In his work, Durkheim focused on totemism, the religion of the aboriginal Australians and Native Americans.
Durkheim saw totemism as the most ancient religion, and focused on it as he believed its simplicity would ease the discussion of the essential elements of religion.
Durkheim ’ s work on religion was heavily criticized on both empirical and theoretical grounds by specialists in the field.
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