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This 4 page paper looks at the major theoretical points and issues that Dawkins and Durkheim agree and areas where they disagree. The paper includes issues such as religion and the use of scientific approaches and biological models to examine society and its evolution. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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contributions to the field of sociology and anthropology whereas Dawkins is a British evolutionary biologist and ethnologist and controversial science writer. The societies in which they lived and the basis
of their work was very different, but there were some striking similarities, both were ardently against religion and both were concerned with looking at the way societies are formed and
the way they evolved at social and individual levels. Both also approach their subjects form a scientific approach; Durkheim comes at the subject from a social development perceptive whereas Dawkins
looks at this from a more biological approach, which can be seen as taking Durkheims ideas further. Looking at religion both of the theorists are against region,
seeing it as man made with both thinkers following an atheist path. Both did not believe in god and were ardent opponents not only of religion but also of associated
ideas such ass intelligent design. Durkheim wanted to identify the social origins of religion, noting that is was a source of social
solidarity creating unity and a tool that gave a society a moral framework which was essential for societies to continue to exist and evolve (Durkheim, 1965). He argued that society
had to be present within an individual, and that religion was a way of reinforcing the values. He also argued that society was developing and while it may have been
the cement that was needed in the past society has since move on and the collapse of religion now, unlike in the past, would not result in a moral implosion.
Religion he also saw as a communal experience (Durkheim, 1965). Dawkins task a similar approach, but he takes this further, while Durkheim saw religion as developed by society as a
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