He advocated a rigorously scientific approach represented by the title of one work, and in another identified the security of collective belief and the prevalence of totemism as dominant forces in the rise of religion.
This sociologist posited a unifying set of beliefs underpinning societal thought, his concept of the "collective consciousness." He advocated a rigorously scientific approach represented by the title of one work, and in another identified the security of collective belief and the prevalence of totemism as dominant forces in the rise of religion. This man also argued that advanced societies lack (*) mechanical solidarity in a work that preceded his Rules of the Sociological Method. This author of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life included fatalistic and altruistic in a group of four types of the title phenomenon in a work examining anomie. For 10 points, identify this author of The Division of Labor in Society, a French sociologist who also wrote the tract Suicide.
This sociologist posited a unifying set of beliefs underpinning societal thought, his concept of the "collective consciousness."
Emile {Durkheim}