Lecture 5 Flashcards
Title of Durkheim’s Dissertation
The Division of Labour in Society
In Mechanical societies, members…
Observe same functions and daily routines
Collective Conscience
The range or degree that individuals in a society think alike
Mechanical societies have a ___________ collective conscience while organic societies have a __________ collective conscience
strong, weak
In organic societies… there is:
dependence on others and a specified distribution of labour
Durkheim’s Assumptions:
Crime is normal and neccessary
According to Durkheim, crime is functional as
it defines moral boundaries and identifies rule breakers
If there is no law violaters then society would…
Change the law to create violators
According to Durkheim, humans are
Greedy and do not have the internal mechanism to tell them when they are satisfied.
Society is a mechanism for____
Limiting insaitability through the creation of law and setting limits
Durkheim refers to a state of anomie as
“normlessness”
According to Durkheim, no matter what ________ will have a negative effect
rapid change
4 Types of Suicide
Egoistic, altruistic, anomic, fatalistic
Egoistic is the result of
low integration
Altruistic is the result of
high integration
Anomic is the result of
Low regulation
Fatalistic is the result of
High regulation
Durkheim’s work as strong theoretical ties to
Social disorganization theory and merton’s theory of anomie
Strain theories emphasize
frustration as a causal factor in crime
Merton’s theories are the
Most cited
Merton believed anomie is the
disequilibrium of the goals of a society and the means to achieve those goals
Durkheim believed anomie was the result of
rapid social change
Anomie is a
negative state
5 Adaptations to strain
Conformity, ritualism, innovation, retreatism and rebellion
