This man characterized social facts as exerting "coercive power." He wrote about organic versus mech
This man characterized social facts as exerting "coercive power." He wrote about organic versus mechanical solidarity and defined religion as that which classifies things as sacred or profane. This author of The Rules of the Sociological Method and Elementary Forms of Religious Life coined a term for the breakdown of norms in The Division of Labor in Society. Another work comments on differing rates of the title phenomenon among Catholics and Protestants, dividing it into fatalistic, altruistic, egotistic, and anomic types. For 10 points, name this French sociologist, author of Suicide.
This man characterized social facts as exerting "coercive power."
Émile {Durkheim}