January 28, 2014

Perez, Zulay (UD ID#9397-6279)

Study Guide #3 Emile Durkheim

Chapter 3 "Emile Durkheim" Sociological Theory
1. What did Durkheim mean by the idea that social facts are things?
2. What did Durkheim see as the difference between material and nonmaterial social
facts? (Please give examples of each of these.)
3. What did Durkheim mean by the collective conscience?
4. What did Durkheim mean by "mechanical solidarity"?
5. What did he mean by "organic solidarity"?
6. What is egoistic suicide? What is anomic suicide? What is altruistic suicide?
7. According to Durkheim, how is it possible to study religion from a sociological
perspective?
8. What is totemism and why is it significant sociologically?
9. How is knowledge related to the social world according to Durkheim?
10. What is collective effervescence and what does it reveal about the nature of social
forces?
11. How is sociology connected to morality according to Durkheim?
12. What is the role of education from Durkheim's perspective?
13. What is the value of occupational associations from Durkheim's point of view?