This academic put forth the "fundamental rule" that "One must consider social facts as things." His study of animism and totemism argued that religions were instances of abstract society worship, and focused on the sacred/profane dichotomy. This author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life wrote a dissertation on the shift from "mechanical" to "organic" solidarity, The Division of Labor in Society. He described egoistic, fatalistic, and altruistic deaths in a study which included a state of disconnect from social norms, or anomie, among four causes of Suicide. For 10 p
This academic put forth the "fundamental rule" that "One must consider social facts as things." His study of animism and totemism argued that religions were instances of abstract society worship, and focused on the sacred/profane dichotomy. This author of Elementary Forms of Religious Life wrote a dissertation on the shift from "mechanical" to "organic" solidarity, The Division of Labor in Society. He described egoistic, fatalistic, and altruistic deaths in a study which included a state of disconnect from social norms, or anomie, among four causes of Suicide. For 10 points, name this pioneering French sociologist.
This academic put forth the "fundamental rule" that "One must consider social facts as things."