He's not Boas, but this man attributed totemism and belief in mana to collective effervescence, arguing that "the god of the clan is the clan itself." He claimed that Socrates's independence of thought rendered a service to humanity in his On the Normality of Crime, and that specialization of labor leads to evolution from mechanical to organic solidarity. His "social facts," described in The Rule
He's not Boas, but this man attributed totemism and belief in mana to collective effervescence, arguing that "the god of the clan is the clan itself." He claimed that Socrates's independence of thought rendered a service to humanity in his On the Normality of Crime, and that specialization of labor leads to evolution from mechanical to organic solidarity. His "social facts," described in The Rules of Sociological Method, create external constraints on individuals, and levels of integration determine rates of Catholic and Protestant commission of the title act of his most famous work. For 10 points, name this French sociologist, the author of Suicide.
He's not Boas, but this man attributed totemism and belief in mana to collective effervescence, arguing that "the god of the clan is the clan itself."
David Émile Durkheim