Emile DurkheimThinkers

Anomie is a kind of homelessness felt in times of rapid social change when normal rules, habits, and beliefs no longer hold and alternatives have yet to arise.

Anomie is a state of social disorganization brought on by the lack of (or insufficiency of) social and moral rules regulating activity between persons and groups.

Collective conscious is an emergent characteristic of a group or society arising from and supporting a unified mental and emotional response to events of the world.

Collective consciousness is an emergent characteristic (meaning it takes on a life of its own) of a group or society arising from and supporting a unified mental and emotional response to events of the world.

Collective effervescence is emotional excitement or delirium released in the wake of society level events (i.e. 9/11 or a school shooting) as individuals comes together to communicate the same thoughts and actions.

A Concept is that which, once born, obeys laws all its own. The concept has a life of its own, attracting one other, repelling each other, uniting, dividing itself and multiplying.

Conscience is the greater, better part of man's existence which transcends the body, escaping its yoke, but remaining subject to the yoke of society.

Crime is both inevitable and necessary, a social fact necessitated by the utter impossibility of total agreement regarding norms and values among all members of a society.

Crime is necessary and is logically implied by the fundamental conditions of social organization insofar as no people exist whose morality is not daily infringed upon.

Culture is the net of enmeshed norms, beliefs, traditions, and feelings which ensures that human beings are bound together by an internalized mesh of coercion.

Culture is to be found in every act, any insignificant gesture, each facial expression insofar as they are socially determined by laws, norms and customs.

The Division of labor is a capitalist form of social production whereby workers specialize in one task and produce an object together.