SOCI 330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Rationality, Individualism, Anomie
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Western part of germany a town called durkheim. When he was 12 or 13 it was really important for him. He wanted to be apart of french society: liberty, equality, fraternity mattered for him. France at the end of the 19th century was torn a part by the draffus affair, an officer who was falsely accused of leaking french information. Church, army, state vs judaism : liberal parts of society wanted to protect him but the old world was irrational, not modern and anti-semitic. No relationship to social cohesion, morality, it is doing what you want to do. A society must be in place and must be more than naked self-interest, a sense of solidarity s very important. He is a middle way theorist (not of the extreme left) 1898 he moves to paris (date uncertain) - a professor of education and sociology. Lectures on st. simon (religious fanatic who is a socialist)
