Durkheim and Society

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October 8, 2012

 

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Firstly, he recognises the importance of appreciating what he has termed ‘social facts’, which are ways of acting, thinking and acting, external to but constraining on the individual that reflects social reality. Secondly, he utilises law as an external index, which he believed to be the pre-eminent social fact, to explain the character and properties of society...
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With this methodology, Durkheim explains how modern western societies have come about by discovering the evolution of social solidarity from being mechanical to organic. With law as the external index, this social evolution is reflected in the legal evolution from repressive to restitutive law. Since criminal and civil law are regarded by Durkheim as the epitome of each , through his process of discovering society, Durkheim also discovers the real place and function of these two types of law...
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