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This 3 page report discusses French social theorist Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) and his ideas regarding human society. The differences between "traditional" and "modern" societies are briefly considered, along with how such theories relate to the contemporary world. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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study of people and their societies. His underlying premise was that different groups each had unique characteristics that were more than and different from the totality of the characteristics of
the people of which the group consisted. Because of that understanding, he was particularly interested in the ways in which social stability was maintained. For him, it was the
collective values such as religious beliefs and moral dictates of a social group that held society together but he also saw the dissolution of such values and the shifts in
the collective consciousness that took place in virtually all social, economic, and national groups because of World War I. Concept of Society According to Ramp (2001), Durkheim wanted to
determine the intrinsic origins of the most fundamental of: "... conceptual universals in order to render them available as objects of analysis, on a level other than the one they
demanded at face value; specifically, at the level of embodied social practices" (pp. 89). Through investigating society via truly scientific methodologies, it would be possible, in Durkheims opinion, to isolate
the phenomena and events that have a truly meaningful impact on individuals behaviors, personalities, and character traits. Such a process would then allow him a greater ability to define what
served as the foundation for social change and how it changed and grew into other degrees of change in the overall social fabric.
The student examining Durkheims beliefs should understand that Durkheim saw the fact that changes in traditional social orders that ranged from movements toward democracy and capitalism to less of
an all-consuming concern with religion all served to re-shape and forever change human society throughout the Europe and North America. Of course, since Europe and North America were primary influences
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