Émile Durkheim
Collective Conscience and Solidarity
Durkheims view of Suicide
Collective Effervescence
The Sacred and The profane
100

Suicide!

What was the title of Durkheim’s most famous work?

100

People feel connected through similar work; educational and religious training; age; gender; and lifestyle.

What is mechanical solidarity?

100

Social integration and regulation

What are the two key societal factors identified by Durkheim that influence suicide rates?

100

1912

What year was the term first coined?

100

The mundane aspects of life that lack any special significance

What is the profane
200

Leipzig

Where did Durkheim study abroad in Germany?

200

Individuals performing different tasks and having different values and interests, leads to a societal solidarity due to their reliance on each other to perform their specified tasks.

What is Organic Solidarty?

200

Durkheim identified this type of suicide as occurring when individuals feel excessively integrated into society, sacrificing themselves for the collective.

What is altruistic suicide?

200

Elementary forms of religious life

What was the volume which first introduced collective effervecence called? 

300

3rd Generation

If Durkheim had followed the path of the Yeshiva, what generation of Rabbi would he have been?

300

Globalisation and The Enlightenment

What are the major shifts the collective conscience experienced?
300

Excessive individuation

What is the concept in Durkheim's theory of suicide that is connected to egoistic suicide, and explains the state where individuals become detached from societal norms and values?

300

Trancendence of self

What is the phenomenon that include intense collective experiences, where individuals often lose their sense of individuality and feel as though they are part of a greater whole?

300

Celebrity culture, flags and cultural festivals are examples of this

What are modern forms of the sacred