Credits, references, and bibliography

• Part/Whole: functional analysis (also)
• Integration
• Solidarity and the sociology of religion (also)
• The Durkheim page
• In his own words
• Biographical Vignette:  Emile Durkheim (another)

"Social Facts" (see also) (The Rules of the Sociological Method 2nd edition, 1982, The Free Press, New York; original 1895)

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

Mechanical to Organic Solidarity

1. Mechanical
2. Organic
3. An increasing division of labor led to a transformation from mechanical solidarity in pre-industrial 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/ (a glossary 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. 2007/2010/2013. Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics. 2nd/3rd/4th editions. St. Louis: McGraw-Hill

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