A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour. - Emile Durkheim
Social life comes from a double source, the likeness of consciences and the division of social labour.
- Emile Durkheim
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily… - Emile Durkheim
There is no society known where a more or less developed criminality is not found under different forms. No people exists whose morality is not daily…
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion. - Emile Durkheim
If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed… - Emile Durkheim
The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed…
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular. - Emile Durkheim
Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.
This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscie… - Emile Durkheim
This solidarity can grow only in inverse ratio to personality... Solidarity which comes from likenesses is at its maximum when the collective conscie…
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds. - Emile Durkheim
Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. - Emile Durkheim
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable.
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting whi… - Emile Durkheim
A social fact is every way of acting, fixed or not, capable of exercising on the individual an external constraint; or again, every way of acting whi…
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