Durkheim Midterm

Question 1

What is egoistic suicide?

Answer 1

Stems from the absence of social integration/ person is too concerned with him/herself

Question 2

Emile Durkheim

Answer 2

bit of an academic outsider

Question 3

Anomie

Answer 3

A state of normlessness in society

Question 4

Homoduplex

Answer 4

Individual body, desires, appetites, biological and psychological drives

Question 5

Suicide is what kind of phenomenon?

Answer 5

A social rather than psychological phenomenon

Question 6

Why did Durkheim develop sociology?

Answer 6

to study society because he believed that other departments would not analyze it properly

Question 7

Altruistic Suicide

Answer 7

Too much integration/ marked by cultural approval and benefit the social order

Question 8

Religion is a social phenomenon

Answer 8

that helps maintain social order

Question 9

How do we study religion sociologically?

Answer 9

Historical and comparative method

Question 10

Church definition

Answer 10

a moral community guided by similar actions and beliefs

Question 11

Historical method to study religion

Answer 11

easier to analyze religion in its earliest forms

Question 12

Comparative method to study religion

Answer 12

religion is not magic/ there is no “church of magic”

Question 13

All religions make a distinction between

Answer 13

the sacred and the profane

Question 14

The Sacred

Answer 14

something “set off/apart” from everyday life/ something to be used with ritual care

Question 15

The profane

Answer 15

Everyday, commonplace, mundane stuff

Question 16

Rules protect and isolate the sacred from the profane

Answer 16

Breaking these rules provokes moral outage and a forceful group response

Question 17

Totemism

Answer 17

An animal or group that symbolizes the group

Question 18

Symbolism

Answer 18

is what makes the totem special

Question 19

Moral Education

Answer 19

teaches the individuals their limitations, must show and allow people to apply rules logically and almost treat certain kinds of rules as sacred

Question 20

Rites

Answer 20

Ways of acting around certain things

Question 21

Social control

Answer 21

different ways we are controlled, external responses

Question 22

Social cohesion

Answer 22

cohesive whole, work together

Question 23

Harmony

Answer 23

This means people are working together, has equilibrium, balance

Question 24

solidarity

Answer 24

is what holds people together, it is a shared sense or purpose, feeling of togetherness

Question 25

social laws

Answer 25

show the need for regulation, looking and examining different ways of solidarity

Question 26

Causal laws

Answer 26

looking at the causal relationships in the world

Question 27

Durkheim argues that society

Answer 27

is an organized system

Question 28

God is society

Answer 28

Religion integrates you but also has rules on you

Question 29

Religion/church

Answer 29

is a moral community, form of integration

Question 30

The system of gods

Answer 30

The entire community is organized around religion