SYG-1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collective Effervescence, Nonconformist, Anomie
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Religious ideas thus result from the interpretation of pre-existing sentiments and, in order to study religion, we must penetrate to these sentiments, avoiding the ideas which are only the s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ol a(cid:374)d surfa(cid:272)e e(cid:454)pressio(cid:374) of these. (cid:863) Only those cosmic forces which have a bearing on collective welfare of the whole social entity are accorded the status of divinity. Religious sentiments were at the center of the conscience collective (cid:862)co(cid:374)s(cid:272)ie(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e(cid:863): co(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g part of a larger (cid:272)olle(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e. Totem physical objects which we have invented to represent something/give rise to certain sentiments and feelings. Primitive societies used them as a way for society to express their feelings. Modern totems act as a way to express ourselves and share it with the world. All phe(cid:374)o(cid:373)e(cid:374)a that e(cid:454)ist i(cid:374) so(cid:272)iet(cid:455) e(cid:454)ist (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause the(cid:455) fulfill a (cid:858)fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)(cid:859), i. e. a constructive role in the maintenance and functioning of society as it exists. Socialist/functionalist approach emile durkheim & robert merton: anomie & suicide (pt.
