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Emile Durkheim
Classical Sociological Theory

Chapter Outline


I. Introduction

 

II. Social Facts

A. Material and Nonmaterial Social Facts
B. Types of Nonmaterial Social Facts
1. Morality
2. Collective Conscience
3. Collective Representations
4. Social Currents
C. Group Mind

III. The Division of Labor in Society

A. Biographical Sketch
B. Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
1. Table: The Four Dimensions of the Collective Conscience
C. Dynamic Density
D. Repressive and Restitutive Law
E. Normal and Pathological
1. Anomic Division of Labor
2. Forced Division of Labor
F. Justice

IV. Suicide

A. The Four Types of Suicide
1. Egoistic Suicide
2. Altruistic Suicide
3. Anomic Suicide
4. Fatalistic Suicide
5. Table: The Four Types of Suicide
B. Suicide Rates and Social Reform

V. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

A. Early and Late Durkheimian Theory
B. Theory of Religion-The Sacred and the Profane
1. Beliefs, Rituals, and Church
C. Why Primitive?
D. Totemism
E. Sociology of Knowledge
1. Categories of Understanding
2. Collective Effervescence

VI. Cult of the Individual

A. The Dreyfus Affair, Individualism, and the Intellectuals
B. Liberalism versus Communitarianism

VII. Moral Education and Social Reform

A. Morality
1. Discipline
2. Attachment
3. Autonomy
B. Moral Education
1. Occupational Associations

VIII. Criticism

A. Functionalism and Positivism
B. Other Criticisms

IX. Summary