This thinker used the Twelve Tables, the Hebrew Torah, and the laws of Christian Europe to argue that civilization's laws have moved from being repressive to restitutive.
This thinker used the Twelve Tables, the Hebrew Torah, and the laws of Christian Europe to argue that civilization's laws have moved from being repressive to restitutive. This author called the mass of knowledge and beliefs of average members of a society the "collective conscience." This thinker theorized his discipline as a science of (*) social facts. He argued that individualism persists in complex societies through organic solidarity, while primitive societies are bound by mechanical solidarity. The Division of Labor in Society is a pioneering book by this author, who also wrote a monograph which divides its title acts into "egoistic," "altruistic," "fatalistic," and "anomic" types. For 10 points, name this French sociologist who wrote Suicide.
This thinker used the Twelve Tables, the Hebrew Torah, and the laws of Christian Europe to argue that civilization's laws have moved from being repressive to restitutive.
Émile Durkheim [or David Émile Durkheim]