Sociology 2260A/B Final: Required Information and Knowledge for Final Exam.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2260A/B
• Professor: Daphne Heywood

Document Summary

Durkheim specifically reverses the jurisprudential view of law as a priori being and predicates law upon the social": durkheim"s sociology is primarily directed to an analysis of society, and his statements on law are secondary to that. Durkheim is most concerned with social solidarity, or how society is held together: he rejected the prevailing methodological individualism that assumed the individual" to be a basic starting point for the study of groups. Instead, durkheim insisted that the collective, social being should serve as the starting point. Ways of acting, thinking, and feeling, external to the individual, and supplied with the power of coercion, by reason of which they control him. Durkheim regarded society as an independent, ritual-based order that is a composite of all consciousness a kind of fusion of all individual consciousness that is created out of social interactions in a given historical context.