Durkheim Flashcards
(21 cards)
4 conditions that make sociology scientific
- Definite subject matter
- Typologies
- Causal laws
- Possesses an appropriate inductive method
What is mechanical solidarity based on?
Resemblences
What type of law is associated with mechanical solidarity?
Penal
What is Organic solidarity based on?
Division of labour
What kind of law is associated with Organic solidarity?
Contract
2 types of social facts
Material
Non-material
Examples of material
Social structures
Law
Examples of non-material
Morality
Collective consciousness
Social currents
Role of Division of Labour
Creates conditions of interdependence
Insufficient state regulation of capitalists
Anomic division of labour
4 types of suicide
Egoistic
Anomic
Altruistic
Fatalistic
Suicide with low integration
Egoistic
Suicide with low regulation
Anomic
Suicide with high integration
Altruistic
Suicide with high regulation
Fatalistic
Examples of egoistic suicide
Protestants
Unmarried men
Intellectuals and artists
Examples of anomic suicide
Rapid acquisition of wealth
Regions that allow divorce
Weak societal influence to reign in their passions
General function of religion
Society need to reaffirm collective sentiments
Original two functions religion filled
Speculative
Guide to living and social (re)making
Which function that religion originally filled is now filled by science?
Speculative
Religion and modernity
Transitional stage
