This thinker defined religion as that which distinguishes between sacred and profane.
This thinker defined religion as that which distinguishes between sacred and profane. This thinker also proposed that totemism was a force in the rise of religion and associated it with collective effervescence. This man claimed that capitalistic societies require more regulation to maintain stability than primitive ones. This man contrasted organic and mechanical solidarity in The [*] Division of Labor in Society and also wrote The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. This man divided the title action into fatalistic, altruistic, egoistic and anomic varieties in another work. For 10 points, identify this French sociologist, the author of Suicide.
This thinker defined religion as that which distinguishes between sacred and profane.
Émile {Durkheim}