SOCIOL 3A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Spiritualism, Social Fact, Evolutionism
22 Sep 2014
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Durkheim: university of bordeux: 3 important works: The division of labour in society (social solidarity) The rules of the sociological method (methods and approach to understanding of society based on theoretical premises) Isolate elementary forms of religious life, and can make sense of our contemporary religions: human beings are at their very core, are religious/cant get away from it. The book intro: passage in intro: there are no religions that are false, all are true. Not true in the way their believers believe them to be true/every human society has a religious expression/metaphorical an symbolic form of religion, the nature of each society/durkheim equates society with god. Fox 3 lecture 2: magic is not religion. Chapter 1: passage: the manner in which both types of representations are formed immense cooperation . space but also through time multitude of different mindslong generations have accumulated infinitely richer and more complex that being the case reason can go beyond the power .
