Émile Durkheim on Suicide & Society: Crash Course Sociology #5
Now that we've talked a little bit about how sociology works, it's time to start exploring some of the ideas of the discipline's founders. First up: Émile Durkheim. We'll explain the...
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So, the fact that we have society at all is kind of amazing. Think about it: People with different interests, different amounts of money, members of different subcultures, races, and sexual orientations, somehow all manage to hold together, in this thing we call society. A thing that, at least kind of, works. But it doesn't just hold together. Society has to somehow endure periods of intense change without falling apart. Political change, technological change, population growth, economic crises – all these things can be massively disruptive. Sometimes we might even worry that the fabric of society won't be able to take the stress. And it’s these questions of how society holds together, and how to understand when it goes wrong, that Émile Durkheim, one...
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So, the fact that we have society at all is kind of amazing. Think about it: People with different interests, different amounts of money, members of different subcultures, races, and sexual orientations, somehow all manage to hold together, in this thing we call society. A thing that, at least kind of, works. But it doesn't just hold together. Society has to somehow endure periods of intense change without falling apart. Political change, technological change, population growth, economic crises – all these things can be massively disruptive. Sometimes we might even worry that the fabric of society won't be able to take the stress. And it’s these questions of how society holds together, and how to understand when it goes wrong, that Émile Durkheim, one...
