Emile Durkhiem's contribution to sociology

Durkheim’s contribution to sociology

Social facts should be the subject matter for the study of social life and provide explanations for human thinking and behavior

Social Facts

ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that exist outside the individual and exert/coercive power over the individual

Everything we do is ___, there is no human event that cannot be considered ___.

Social

For sociology to exist as its own, Social facts must refer only to ___ that exist outside of us and compel us to act in certain ways

forces created by society

Most of our ideas and tendencies are ______

not developed by ourselves, but came to us from outside

Social currents

fast-moving feelings, passions, or enthusiasm (such as panic, rage, or joy) generated by a crowd or society rather than a single person's mind

_____ in our world, like rods, cities, and houses shape how we live everyday.

Big physical structures

__ are social facts that have hardened over a long time

Physical features

Societies always have ___

social problems

Mechanical Solidarity

In smaller societies, everyone is doing the same thing together, and can always replace an individual if they aren’t performing well

Organic Solidarity

Bigger, diverse societies work together, but can shut down if one member or role isn’t performing well. They cannot be replaced

Anomie

People who committed suicide were cut off from things that provided them with social order, such as institutions and people