This thinker suggested that beliefs should be evaluated according to the four criteria of: volume, intensity, rigidity, and content.
This thinker suggested that beliefs should be evaluated according to the four criteria of: volume, intensity, rigidity, and content. This thinker defined one of his most important concepts as: "any way of acting [] capable of exerting over the individual an external constraint". He argued that an increase in population per area and degree of social interaction produces greater "dynamic density", which precipitates a move from mechanical to organic forms of solidarity. He created the concepts of the "social fact" and the "collective consciousness". This author of The Rules of Sociological Method wrote a work that contrasts egoistic, altruistic, fatalistic, and anomic motivations for taking one's own life. For 10 points, name this French Sociologist who wrote The Division of Labor in Society and Suicide.
This thinker suggested that beliefs should be evaluated according to the four criteria of: volume, intensity, rigidity, and content.
(David) Emile Durkheim