[SOC2112] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (59 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2112
• Professor: William Flynn

Document Summary

Co-founded institue d"etonologie at the university of paris. Archaic is non european small scale societies. British utilitarian philosophy: individuals strive/act to max their own happiness/self the gift: form and functions of exchange in archaic societies (1923/24) interest. Durkheim and mauss argues against these individual philosophies. Social norms must exist prior to the individual in order to guide their own behaviours. Society is more than the sums of its parts. The theory of the gift = a theory of social solidarity. Solidarity is the net result of renewable social relations between people and groups. Although the worker has to contribute to his insurance, those who have benefited from his services have not discharged their debt to him through the payment of wages. The division of labour in society (1893) The elementary forms of religious life (1912) Durkheim first european department of sociology at bordeaux in france in 1895. Sociology as a distinct and separate discipline/science.