Emile Durkheim


Credits, references, and bibliography

Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) (see also, the Dead Sociologist Index):

"Social Facts" (see also)

  1. Material Social Facts
  2. Non-material Social Facts

Mechanical to Organic Solidarity

Two Types of Solidarity and the Division of Labor
  1. Mechanical
  2. Organic
  3. An increasing division of labor led to a transformation from mechanical solidarity in primitive societies to organic solidarity in modern societies.  A change in dynamic density —— was the key mechanism in driving the transformation from mechanical to organic solidarity, and a weakening of the Collective Conscience (or conscious collective). Dynamic density refers to both an increase in population growth and density and an increase in interaction (and intensity of interaction)

Anomie

Key Concepts: Anomic (and Other Types of) Suicide

  1. Theory of Suicide (see also, Durkheim's theory of suicide and "Suicide")
  2. Anomie. (see also and this chart by Jim Spickard, or this local copy)

Law

  1. Repressive
  2. Restitutive
  3. See, review of Roger Cotterrell, Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, Review: [untitled], by Ken Foster, "The Modern Law Review © 2001 Modern Law Review."

The Durkheim Pages: http://durkheim.uchicago.edu/ ( aglossary of Durkeimian concepts, reviews of recent work on Durkheim, full texts of Durkheim's work in French and English, and critical summaries of Durkheim's work), Alun Jones, 2009.

The Sociology of Emile Durkheim: http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/~felwell/Theorists/Durkheim/index.htm, Frank Elwell, 2003

Credits, references, and bibliography

1. Much of this page comes from the "Instructor's Manual" to accompany Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics, Second Edition, George Ritzer, Mcgraw-Hill, 2007. The Instructor's Manual was prepared by James Murphy, University of Maryland, College Park and Todd Stillman, Fayetteville State University.
2. Ritzer, George. 2007/2010. Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics. 2nd/3rd editions. St. Louis: McGraw-Hill

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