The Life of Durkheim
This was the name of Durkheim's doctoral dissertation.
What is the Division of Labor in Society?
This type of suicide is typical of suicide bombers.
Altruistic suicide
Ben Franklin's "A penny saved is a penny earned" is an example of this type of statement designed to influence people's beliefs and practices.
What is an aphorism?
This type of solidarity stems from a feeling of likeness and everyone doing/feeling the same thing.
What is mechanical solidarity?
This was the subject that Durkheim studied for his PhD
What is philosophy?
This is the term that Durkheim might use to describe people who take their own lives due to government oppression.
Fatalistic
This is the name of the book where Durkheim introduced the concept of social facts.
This type of solidarity is based on differences among people and interdependency.
What is organic solidarity?
This is the field of study that Durkheim originally pursued before deciding to study philosophy.
Rabbinical studies - or Jewish law
What is egoistic suicide?
This is a term Durkheim used to describe great movements of enthusiasm that can "carry us away in spite of ourselves."
What are social currents?
Durkheim used this term to describe the totality of beliefs and sentiments of people who live in mechanical societies.
What is collective conscience?
This is another term for the "cohesion of social groups" that was the focus of many of Durkheim's theory.
What is social solidarity?
This type of suicide increases during times of economic boom and bust.
What is anomic suicide?
This is the name of the Pennsylvania town that was used in class to illustrate the importance of social solidarity.
What is Roseto?
This is the word Durkheim used to describe the pathological consequences of an overly specialized division of labor.
What is anomie?
This is the term used to describe sociologists like Durkheim who believe that society can be studied using the scientific method.
What is positivists?
These are three of the five countries where Durkheim gathered date on suicide.
France Germany and England (also Denmark and Austria)
This was one feature of society that Durkheim thought was "utterly impossible" to eliminate.
What is crime?
This theorist shared an affinity with Durkheim with his analysis of simple and compound societies but was criticized for his social beliefs in survival of the fittest.