Émile Durkheim
Suicide!
What was the title of Durkheim’s most famous work?
People feel connected through similar work; educational and religious training; age; gender; and lifestyle.
What is mechanical solidarity?
Social integration and regulation
What are the two key societal factors identified by Durkheim that influence suicide rates?
1912
What year was the term first coined?
The mundane aspects of life that lack any special significance
Leipzig
Where did Durkheim study abroad in Germany?
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?
Durkheim identified this type of suicide as occurring when individuals feel excessively integrated into society, sacrificing themselves for the collective.
What is altruistic suicide?
Elementary forms of religious life
What was the volume which first introduced collective effervecence called?
3rd Generation
If Durkheim had followed the path of the Yeshiva, what generation of Rabbi would he have been?
Globalisation and The Enlightenment
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?
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?
Celebrity culture, flags and cultural festivals are examples of this
What are modern forms of the sacred