Posted: January 31st, 2023
While completing the assigned material in the chapters of Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, write a paper, of approximately 1400
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While completing the assigned material in the chapters of Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings, write a paper, of approximately 1400(5 pages) in which you discuss two or three (maximum) brief passages in the text, and one or two concepts introduced in the text passages to which you refer. Example of the latter would include “norm” and “sanction,” arguably best discussed in tandem. An example of the former would be to take the citation:” …we may state that an act is criminal when it offends the strong, well-defined states of the Conscience Collective” and explicate it- that is, explain what Durkheim means by this assertion, which runs contrary to common sense, in many respects. Of course in explaining and interpreting a sample of text, you will need to clarify concepts included in the passage(s) itself, thus, in this example, “collective consciousness.” This passage is but one simple example, of course, and you may draw upon any that you find of similar or greater interest to you.
Some obvious examples of concepts to clarify, from the text, are: -
Social Facts as things
Anomie
Function
Conscience Collective
Moral Authority
Collective Representations
Norm & Sanction
Social Solidarity: Mechanical & Organic
Restitutive and Penal Sanctions
Suicide, suicide rates
Division of Labor
Individualism (vs. Egoism)
Religion
Categories of thought & logic