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Émile Durkheim

Geburtstag: 15. April 1858
Todesdatum: 15. November 1917

David Émile Durkheim [eˈmil dyʀˈkɛm] war ein französischer Soziologe und Ethnologe. Er war 1887 als Lehrbeauftragter für Soziologie und Pädagogik in Bordeaux der Erste mit einer akademischen Stelle an einer französischen Universität. Er gilt heute als ein Klassiker der Soziologie, der mit seiner Methodologie die Eigenständigkeit der Soziologie als Fachdisziplin zu begründen gesucht hat. Seine empirische Studie zum Thema Selbsttötung wurde zum Paradigma empirischer Soziologie. Wikipedia

Zitate Émile Durkheim

„But the division of labor is not peculiar to the economic world; we can observe its growing influence in the most varied fields of society. The political, administrative, and judicial functions are growing more and more specialized. It is the same with the aesthetic and scientific functions. It is long since philosophy reigned as the science unique; it has been broken into a multitude of special disciplines each of which has its object, method, and thought. “Men working in the sciences have become increasingly more specialized.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 40

„If I do not submit to the conventions of society, if in my dress I do not conform to the customs observed in my country and in my class, the ridicule I provoke, the social isolation in which I am kept, produce, although in an attenuated form, the same effects as punishment in the strict sense of the word.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: Rules of Sociological Method, 1895, p. 3

„It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch Suicide

Suicide (1897)

„At this point, an urgent question arises:… Is it our duty to seek to become a thorough and complete human being, one quite sufficient unto himself; or, on the contrary, to be only a part of a whole, the organ of an organism? Briefly, is the division of labor, at the same time that it is a law of nature, also a moral rule of human conduct; and, if it has this latter character, why and in what degree?“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 41.

„To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is too condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch Suicide

Suicide (1897)

„Every society is a moral society.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 228
Kontext: Every society is a moral society. In certain respects, this character is even more pronounced in organised societies. Because the individual is not sufficient unto himself, it is from society that he receives everything necessary to him, as it is for society that he works.

„When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary. When mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Attributed from postum publications
Quelle: Jeffrey Eisenach et al. (1993), Readings in renewing American civilization, p. 54

„Everybody knows that we like those who resemble us, those who think and feel as we do. But the opposite is no less true. It very often happens that we feel kindly towards those who do not resemble us, precisely because of this lack of resemblance.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 54

„Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

„The general conclusion of the book which the reader has before him is that religion is something eminently social.“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Quelle: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912, p. 10

„It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch Suicide

Suicide (1897)

„Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract;“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

„We do not condemn it because it is a crime, but it is a crime because we condemn it.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

„Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

„Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

„A passion for the infinite is daily presented as a sign of moral distinction, when in fact it can only occur in disturbed minds which accord the status of a norm to the very disturbance from which they are suffering.“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch Suicide

Suicide (1897)

„Now, it is unquestionable that language, and consequently the system of concepts which it translates, is the product of a collective elaboration. What it expresses is the manner in which society as a whole represents the facts of experience. The ideas which correspond to the diverse elements of language are thus collective representations. Even their contents bear witness to the same fact. In fact, there are scarcely any words among those which we usually employ whose meaning does not pass, to a greater or less extent, the limits of our personal experience. Very frequently a term expresses things which we have never perceived or experiences which we have never had or of which we have never been the witness. Even when we know some of the objects which it concerns, it is only as particular examples that serve to illustrate the idea which they would never have been able to form by themselves. Thus there is a great deal of knowledge condensed in the word which I never collected, and which is not individual; it even surpasses me to such an extent that I cannot even completely appropriate all its results. Which of us knows all the words of the language he speaks and the entire signification of each?“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Quelle: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912, p. 434

„In short, all suicides of the insane are either devoid of any motive or determined by purely imaginary motives. Now, many voluntary deaths fall into neither category; the majority have motives, and motives not unfounded in reality. Not every suicide can therefore be considered insane, without doing violence to language.“

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—  Émile Durkheim, buch Suicide

Suicide (1897)

„Once the generality of the phenomenon has been established, one can, by showing its utility, confirm the results of the first method. We may, therefore, formulate the three following rules:
# A social fact is normal, in relation to a given social type at a given phase of its development, when it is present in the average society of that species at the corresponding phase of its evolution.
# One can verify the results of the preceding method by showing that the generality of the phenomenon is bound up with the general conditions of collective life of the social type considered.
# This verification is necessary when the fact in question occurs in a social species which has not yet reached the full course of its evolution.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: Rules of Sociological Method, 1895, p. 64

„Nowadays, the phenomenon (of division of labor) has developed so generally it is obvious to all. We need have no further illusions about the tendencies of modern industry; it advances steadily towards powerful machines, towards great concentrations of forces and capital, and consequently to the extreme division of labor. Occupations are infinitely separated and specialized, not only inside the factories, but each product is itself a specialty dependent upon others. Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill still hoped that agriculture, at least, would be an exception to the rule, and they saw it as the last resort of small-scale industry. Although one must be careful not to generalize unduly in such matters, nevertheless it is hard to deny today that the principal branches of the agricultural industry are steadily being drawn into the general movement. Finally, business itself is ingeniously following and reflecting in all its shadings the infinite diversity of industrial enterprises; and, while this evolution is realizing itself with unpremeditated spontaneity, the economists, examining its causes and appreciating its results, far from condemning or opposing it, uphold it as necessary. They see in it the supreme law of human societies and the condition of their progress.“

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—  Émile Durkheim

Quelle: The Division of Labor in Society (1893), p. 39; Second paragraph

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