Sociology

Emile Durkheim part 2 Suicide:  Egoistic excessive individualization not integrated no social support and guidance depression ex: protestents people as studied by durkheim  Altruistic: too much integration  individual needs are less important than society needs. anomic : moral confusion deregulation  financial crisis fatalistic: excessively regulated example: Prision Books by Emile Durkheim: elementary forms of religious life division of labor in society moral education the rules of sociological methods

 Emile Durkheim  Pioneer in the field of sociology Positivist and used deductive approach in study Influenced by august comte Society suigeneris  Believed in rational and scientific lens Sociology is different from other subjects because its methodology Two types of society  (a) Normal  (b) Pathological social facts : charcteristics social chacteristics and determinants which are not biological or physiological external to individual  endure the rest of time goes for generations coercive in nature  example : suicide , marriage, wearing formals to job interviews,morality , crime  morality system of rules, serving the common good deviance : it is essential and functional later developed merton's strain theory elements of religious life : totemic society of Australian tribe. we are not worshiping God but society itself.