Sociological method as we practice it rests wholly on the basic principle that social facts must be studied as things, that is, as realities external to the individual. There is no principle for which we have received more criticism; but none is more fundamental. Indubitably for sociology to be possible, it must above all have an object all its own. It must take cognizance of a reality which is not in the domain of other sciences... there can be no sociology unless societies exist, and that societies cannot exist if there are only individuals.
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.
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…
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.
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