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EMILE DURKHEIM: Subject matter of sociology Flashcards

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Emile Durkheim was born on

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15 April 1858

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Emile Durkheim was born to a Jewish family with a long line of rabbis. Was he a rabbi?

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he decided not to be a rabbi

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where exactly in France was Emile Durkheim born?

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Epinal, France

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At what age did Emile Durkheim go to the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris?

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Age 19

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What year did Durkheim graduate?

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1882

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6
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what was Durkheim’s first interest before studying society scientifically?

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Philosophy

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At which university was a sociology course created for Durkheim?

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University of Bordeaux

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Who is the first academic sociologist?

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E Durkheim

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how many years after graduation was the sociology course created for Durkheim?

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Five years

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10
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Emile Durkheim was a functionalist sociologist true or false?

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true

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in what year did Emile Durkheim defend his doctoral dissertation division of labor in society at the university of Paris?

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in the year 1893

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12
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Durkheim founded and wrote an influential journal called….

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L’Annee Sociologique

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in what year did Durkheim, attain professorship of “science of education and Sociology” at the Sorbonne?

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in 1913

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Between Durkheim and Comte, who had the opportunity to lecture in a university helping them develop a sound academic base?

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Durkheim

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Who legitimized sociology in France, and establish its major subject matter?

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Durkheim

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16
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Emily Durkheim died on

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15 November 1917 in France

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17
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List, the four major works of Durkheim

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Division of labor in society - 1893
The rules of sociological method -1895
Suicide-1897
The elementary forms of religious life-1912

18
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Durkheim defined the subject matter of Sociology as the study of

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Social facts

19
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which philosopher believes that society is held together by the shared beliefs, sentiments and values of members in a society?

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Durkheim

20
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What is Durkheim’s view on evolution of society?

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Traditional to modern

21
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What are some of the key ideas Emile Durkheim had?

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social solidarity, collective conscience, happiness, division of labor, and specialization, anomie and suicide

22
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what is social cohesion according to Emile Durkheim?

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They are core institutionalized values that are held in common

23
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The lack of norms of behavior, feelings of alienation and social conflict is called

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Anomie

24
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According to Durkheim, collective conscience and religion are crucial to social….

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cohesion

25
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Beliefs and sentiments, which ushered in common by members of the society is called

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Collective functions

26
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what is the main form of collective conscience?

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religion

27
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“Society creates religion and religion serves society” ~

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The social significance of religion

28
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Durkheim like Comte believed in ……..

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Positivism

29
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Consists of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual and endowed with power of coercion by which they control him is called…..

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social fact

30
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Who urges that social facts should be the subject matter of sociology?

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Durkheim

31
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Are social facts internal or external?

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external

32
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The things that exert powerful influence on our behaviors are called?

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social facts

33
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Social facts put constraints on our behaviors true or false?

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true

34
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Social facts are general throughout society, true or false?

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true

35
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Social facts are “sui generis” latin word which means

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unique

36
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What are some examples Durkheim gave on social facts…

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Legal rules, moral obligations, social convention and language.

37
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Material social facts consist of

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Society itself, and it’s major institutions

38
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nonmaterial social facts consist of

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Social rules, or norms and values. Principles of morality, symbols shared sentiments in collective consciousness.

39
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Characteristics of traditional societies because of similarity or uniformity of the individuals in terms of similar backgrounds, occupations, interests and feelings is called…

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mechanical solidarity

40
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Characteristics of modern societies because of differences among the individuals because of divergent backgrounds, occupations, thoughts and feelings is called

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Organic solidarity

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