EMILE DURKHEIM: the nature of society

Question 1

The book titled Suicide demonstrates ….

Answer 1

the subject matter of sociology (social facts)
that positivistic methods is possible in sociology

Question 2

What’s Durkheim’s most positivistic study and one of the best in the sociological field?

Answer 2

Suicide

Question 3

which philosopher believes that individuals find the happiness in groups and if they are not integrated to groups, they would feel isolated and unhappy and extreme conditions would commit suicide?

Answer 3

Emile Durkheim

Question 4

What is the most prevalent cause of suicide according to Durkheim?

Answer 4

Weak social bonds

Question 5

Durkheim hypothesized that suicide varies inversely with what?

Answer 5

The degree of integration in society

Question 6

Where social integration is weak? The individual is left alone or is socially isolated and not protected by others. What type of suicide is this called?

Answer 6

egoistic suicide

Question 7

What are some of the principal causes of suicide in modern societies?

Answer 7

Weak social solidarity, and weak community life with strong common morality

Question 8

basically extreme loneliness leads to…

Answer 8

egoistic suicide

Question 9

in an instance, where a person increases in popularity, resulting in them, losing their privacy gradually and capacity to mingle and interact with ordinary people, resulting in growing social isolation can be a typical example of what type of suicide?

Answer 9

Egoistic suicide

Question 10

A type of suicide where social integration is strong or high, is called

Answer 10

Altruistic suicide

Question 11

Hero suicide where a parent dies, while pushing their child out of the way of an impending accident or death is a typical example of what type of suicide

Answer 11

Altruistic suicide

Question 12

Basically one sacrificing himself for the interest or protection of a group of people, or someone falls under what type of suicide

Answer 12

Altruistic suicide

Question 13

another word for anomie is

Answer 13

Normlessness

Question 14

College students away from home become wild party animals and die of overdose is a typical example of what type of suicide

Answer 14

anomic suicide

Question 15

A type of suicide where social regulation and control is strong, high or excessive is…

Answer 15

Fatalistic suicide

Question 16

Too much oppression and regulation can unleash currents of melancholy and depression which can push people to committing…….suicide.

Answer 16

fatalistic

Question 17

African slaves in the US who took their lives because of the hopelessness of their conditions. What type of suicide does this fall under ?

Answer 17

fatalistic

Question 18

Religion is a social fact according to ….

Answer 18

Durkheim

Question 19

In which book did Durkheim seek to study primitive or the most simplistic form of religion in order to shed light on the role of religion in modern society?

Answer 19

The elementary forms of religious life

Question 20

Society creates religion through….

Answer 20

individuals

Question 21

individuals define certain activities or objects in society as sacred and every other thing, belonging to the world is termed, as

Answer 21

Profane

Question 22

Science and mental categories by humans was created through

Answer 22

Religion

Question 23

Durkheim like Herbert Spencer, also conceives society as a

Answer 23

Living organism

Question 24

Durkheim is considered by many sociologist to have a _____ view of society

Answer 24

Functionalist

Question 25

Durkheim believed that shared norms values and practices, derive from culture play important roles in binding societal members together. This makes ____ an important concept to Durkheim.

Answer 25

Anomie

Question 26

why did Durkheim advocate for moral education?

Answer 26

To deal with social decay, or moral pathologies of modern society, because of the decline of religion

Question 27

according to Durkheim what will combat the social pathologies thought, undermined the collective morality in the modern society?

Answer 27

Proper education