SOCIOLOGY - Émile Durkheim 

6 years ago: watching school of life as a student Today: still watching again but as a teacher. This channel contributed a lot into what I am today.

0:52 suicide explanation 2:00 Individualism 2:50 capitalism raises excessive hopes 3:50 too much freedom 5:10 atheism 6:00 weakening of nation and family

'Excessive hope' really got me thinking about the current entrepreneur culture, and also how social media tricks young people into believing that if they are not a boss and millionnaire by 25 they have failed life.

This guy narrates well - it really feels like Durkheim is sharing his thoughts with us.

I was just trying to review and now im depressed lol

the main idea of Durkheim is "social fact" (structural functional), he sees human action are based on what society demand on us and how capitalism and modernity change the way human interact (from mechanic to organic solidarity)

my exact mindset when i talk to athiest, i am a christian and even if you dont believe or hate on religion, it is important on giving people hope and a way to this world. having a purpose or something to appreciate everyday is the reason why religion is a blessing for society

The guy in the thumbnail isnt Emile Durkheim, its Emile Zola, the novelist. Great video!

this video has a tendency towards over valuing capitalism as a big part of durkheims work. this is not how I read him at all. it is rather modernity (example: the transition between mechanical solidarity to organical solidarity) that creates something he called anomie (comparable to Hobbes state of natural conflict).

"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" is one of my favorites.

Durkheim is one of my favorite sociologists/philosophers

Thank you for all the stuff, can't stop watching videos.. great job :)

this is really interesting as a student of sociology - often Durkheim is given a short 30 min lecture and then its on with what many of my lecturers see as the "big" sociologist like marx, weber etc. i learned a good deal of new things about Durkheim thanks to this :)

oh snap. I feel an existential crisis coming along.

I was really put back for a moment on reason 3. I thought it was crazy for me to think that too much freedom could make you unhappy. As a child, you weren't really free. Your parents did much of your choices and took you to places but you were still pretty darn happy, even with all those moments of unfairness. Restrictions can be a good thing.

The picture at 0:25 is the French naturalist Émile Zola, not Émile Durkheim.

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I like the part about religion. I used to be very religious as a kid but as I grew older I realized I'm agnostic. But recently I was approached by some people around my age, asking if I wanted to join their church. I don't believe everything they teach me but I like listening to what others believe. I'm open minded and I don't take the time to argue so I just nod or agree with what they say. I don't socialize much so it's nice to go to a place at least once a week where people are nice to me and I can socialize. I do wish I could find a group with my similar beliefs about the spiritual side of life and being happy about just being alive without worrying so much about relgion.

Well done! My advice: find your tribe (people you can relate to, that share an interest you have.) Religion is not the only game in town when it comes to genuine community.

I don't want to be a bore, but I believe that the portrait in the thumbnail, the one that appears at 0:24 in the video, isn't actually Durkheim, but another Émile, Émile Zola, the creator of naturalism, a french literary school.

These videos are too awesome to have annotations in the corner the whole time, seriously, you guys don't need this. If a person is capable of capturing even a fraction of the value of this channel, they will subscribe no matter what.

I freaking love this channel, thank you so much for this enriching and stimulating entertaining.

The man in the cover of the video is not Emile Durkheim, it's Emil Zola :)

What an amazing page you guys have created. I was exactly thinking about starting to study by my self some sociology, psychology and philosophy. It will be fun and easy thanks to you!

you condense the essential information nicely. I read these in college and this is better than what I can remember

Families are much more connected (through one's whole lifetime!) in Mediterranean societies, I assure you. People there are both capitalist, but still hold more collectivist traditional values when it comes to family. This has some pros and cons too, of course. Like it's not weird to stay in your parents' house after you've reached 25+ and they'll always be there to aid you financially, but they'll also get to have saying on how you raise your children and constantly berate you as well.

Really do love your writing style, School of Life / Alain de Botton! Simple, concise, engaging.

You said it! "we are all Durkheim's hiers" Father of sociology, Daddy Durkheim

These videos are very well presented and concise, the appropriate duration without doing a disservice to the ideas discussed; great job! I have one rather pedantic correction: the audio introduces Durkheim as a philosopher, however, he self-identified primarily as a sociologist. The same is the case with the Max Weber video. It wouldn't bother me if I didn't feel that sociology as a discipline needs to be able to lay claim to such key figures of social thought. Apart from that, thanks for all the great material!

Are you not going to upload any other explanations of other scholars and academicians? This was so interesting and thoroughly revived a sense of connecting to my almost lost interest in political science. I really hope to see more of this by your team. Your videos really make the ideas flow and the use of language and vocab is a treat. Thankyou🌿🌟 I hope we can see more of your work on these topics soon~🌸

One of the best RU-vid channels. Thank you.

I like the clear way you speak. I'm not a native speaker, but I can easily understand what you say

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I think the second picture of Durkheim you put (the one with hair and small glasses that is display on the link) is a picture of émile Zola, a French writer, not Durkheim. I might be wrong, if it is the case I am sorry. Anyway, it is an occasion to suggest Zola as a subject. I think it's a pity he isn't more popular in Anglo-Saxon.

Did nobody noticed that the picture used in this video, is actually the French novelist Emile Zola?

i used his theory for my methodoligical research scope social scient. thank you for your contribution prof.

hmmm. Glad people are calling out the misinformation. This is not a good representation of anomie, Durkheim, or his book Suicide.

DK Publishing's "The Sociology Book" brought me here. I'm currently in my 21st year of study at Dorling Kindersley University.

Love this work! I'm a sociology major so it is very interesting to me. Thanks for the video.

Thank you for all of your thoughtful work. They've helped me (and I would like to think lots of others as well) in my daily life. :)

A few years ago a psychologist expressed the belief that our mechanised word contributed greatly to the surge of depression in the later part of the 20th century. Automation of tasks once undertaken by hand have resulted in a loss of pleasure: our brain is geared to reward us for the tasks we now take to be mundane - we've lost out. A couple of the profiles highlighted (William and Ruskin) at SoL have emphasized the importance of being hands on. Tolstoy was another to emphasize the improtance of learning a craft.

I have never been so out of joy in my short life, watching this feels like masochism

lots of thanks from sociology sudents of india

You should read Ludwig Von Mises. You'd be interested in Socialism, Human Action, and Theory and History. Mises: the Last Knight of Liberalism is a great biography. You should also read Rothbards history of economic thought, which is really just a brilliant intellectual history. You'd be very interested in the chapters on Adam Smith, Mill, Malthus, Machiavelli, and Francis Bacon.

i really do enjoy these videos, i wold love to see some videos about African philosophy and African political theory.

If capitalism caused all this in Durkheim's time, just think of everything it causes now.

I would love to see the man who comments in these videos. He has such a calm and wonderful voice.

One route cause of misery is an obsession with materialism for the sake of seeking everyone's approval. Focus on yourself, your happiness, not what others think of you. ^_^

I just discovered your channel (I am the Columbus of RU-vid) and I must say, I find it most entertaining! Good stuff! I think a video about Paul Goodman would be swell.

Hey School of Life, thanks a lot for this video, I've been interested in Durkheim's ideas for a while now, so this was good introduction to them! By the way, could you guys do a video on Henri Bergson? I appreciate his views on art, yet I am interested to know more of his philosophy in general.

That guy is not Durkheim. Hes name is Émile Zola, very similar.

Any plans to do videos on Literature? - I love Alain's book on Proust!

Durkheim was aware of the need of social cohesion, but he was equally aware of the protection of individuality as sacred. He was heavily influenced by neo-Kantianism and its emphasis on individual autonomy. In his involvement in the infamous Dreyfus-affair, he argued against the sacrifice of an individual for the sake of the health of the community and nation at large. He always balanced between the communal and individual needs of human life.

Yes, the makers of this excellent video do state that Durkheim's most important work was "Suicide," but then, IMHO, they went on to summarize what perhaps was Durkheim's overarching take on the back and forth between a demanding modern capitalistic society and individuals in that society wrestling with, among other artificial constructs, anomie. I say "perhaps" because from what I can tell from reading "Suicide" in college, along with a few other blurbs and short articles back then, and then rereading the entire book again just three years ago, I would say that the makers of this short film did not draw very much from Durkheim's most famous work, but from other works, no doubt also written by this French educator. If anyone out there wants to hear a singularly-focused treatise on only Durkheim's "Suicide," I've filmed ten short RU-vid vids on his theory, and how his theory relates to another modern ill, an ill that has to do with labeling theory, and shows basically that yes little girls being called or labeled "bossy" can lead to harm, but that little girls aren't the only ones who can be labeled into going down the "wrong" roads. This series is called "The Woman With One Point Five Hands," and my ten Durkheimian vids begin with number ten and run through number twenty. It probably won't hurt to watch the first nine, and the twenty first, in that series either before or after you view my Durkheimian videos, but then it won't seem like it's about Durkheim either.

I love these videos. But it would almost certainly be better, if we were provided a script, so we could sit down ourselves, revise what we have watched, and think about them deeply.

interesting videos ... i thank you for this amazing work, but what do you think about making videos concerning the pioneers of Chicago school?? like E.Park, Louis Wirth, Burgess...and their theories about urban ethnology and sociology .... i guess it would be really educational don't you think so?

Could you do a Psychotherapy video on Viktor Frankl? His works and theory are truly life-changing

Great video and all but I just wanted to say it just feels better with low level background music, like you have done in others vids. The sudden silences made me think my phone was going wrong. That is all, love you guys!

A master diagnostician of our ills.... couldn't have described this individual better.

The amount if Basis in this video is unreal, Durkheim saw capitalism as a positive force in society as helped to enforce a diversity of labour, specialization in work and meritocratic means of defining inequality. His work regarding suicide pure argued that as human beings lose a sense of belonging to a group of wider society they are more likely to commit suicide, he didn't argue what was the cause of this lose of sense of belonging beyond.a lack of connection to other people.

One of the photos we see at the beginning of the video is a photo of Emile Zola.

I think that Carl Sagan's Cosmos shows many ideas that get you to feel connected with all of humanity, nature and the cosmos itself :) And it's all scientifically accurate haha Plus it sets the idea of human progress on a planetary scale giving us a long way to run into the future with a good enough purpose

This one out of the series is particularly interesting. Thank you!

Germens, I think , are really one of the most intelligent people on earth . I have seen many videos and Germen Philosopher , Sociologist always nailed it . They always come up with some really great ideas . Though I do not agree with all of them yet they make really great point which is hard to evade . I personally want to visit Germany one day , except i think people must be very serious type there .

Alexis de Tocqueville made similar observations about success and failure in individualistic societies.

this is incorrect as his suicide research was in germany comparing catholics and protestants and was based on social inclusion

It seems that the ideal society is found somewhere in the overlap of individualistic modern society and group mindset of the more traditional agrarian societies mentioned. Maybe we should explore a modern approach to the old Grecian city state / poli model.

"Few choices are involved..a person be a..without having made any self-conscious desicion for themselves"-- `_` VERY interesting line..and also a neat way of sayimg how even if you luve in an individualist society that doesn't mean you'll be the best desicion-maker.

I just love this proyect, thanks!

in the middle of culture crisis, his thoughts are still alive. The crisis is continuing, and all of the cultures were destroyed because of their downsides. and it seems there's nothing left to lean on. the predictions he made look more accurate these days.

I feel like a better way to phrase the criticism "we have too much freedom" would be to say "we don't have enough guidance". Most of us want all the freedom we can get, to ultimate make our own choices, but we also want assistance in making those choices.

The problems we have today is a failure to love or find oneself. Competing to others expectations. And opression through control and taxation.

this video was the main reason why i am taking sociology as my A level subject

Isn't that aspect of religion similar to Freud's psychoanalysis? The confessions, the forgiveness, church, etc. Is this why maybe religion played such a well role in early life?

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the picture of have put is Emile Zola the writer

Man this channel is so good.

Hello from the Durkheim's country, love your videos ED showed more than that you can make several videos about it, think about that ! i send you a lot of love bye

Grateful, as always.

It’s really sad that there are no women mentioned in this playlist on Sociology neither are there any blacks mentioned. It would be very helpful if you can include the others in this playlist.

Here's hoping the truth sets us free somehow❣️🌍💔💔🌠🌠🌠

This is quite interesting, because these questions or suggestions are reevaluated today it seems. Some of the five points have been made more precise today e.g. the paradox of choice by Barry Schwarz deals with several combinations of points like individualism and high hopes, belonging and community. What strikes me as a bit odd is to mention "Atheism" when the title should be "loss of community". Maybe at the time people might have associated this with atheism but today we see more clearly, I think. We see that community is important and furthermore that atheism isn't a good label at all just like most of us are non-astrologers, but we don't have to label ourselves like that against harassment of the astrology masses. ;) So it seems that today people can have the feeling and support of community, because they we can find community more easily even if it isn't around locally, ie by using the Internet. (And defining their beliefs in a positive manner that is not built on refusing or opposing someone else's, eg like "Bright") Aside from "spiritual"/deep believe choice of community and labeling/belonging we also have more choice to define ourselves more nuanced and therefore "locally lonely", eg I only like to go out or listen to DeepHouse and related specific subgenre of House and Techno which are even finer classifications of electronic music. In other words, "the subculture rules galore" by replacing the extent of the mainstream. Mainstream would in that sense be the large belonging or community that is going away. Since about the 1950 all large youth movements in terms of music have been smaller and smaller fractions of the total. From Jazz to Jazz and Rock, to Jazz and Rock and Disco and Funk, to Jazz, Rock, Disco, Funk, HipHop and electronic music to several splits of that... ;) This is of course mega awesome but makes it hard for most of us when we don't just have that one song that we all cherish and can relate to each other over it but instead almost can't explain to someone else what we are "listening to" in words that are familiar to anyone but a few people connected over the Internet. Being connected in that way is awesome, don't get me wrong. However that still leaves us quite separated on the local level, ie offline. Thanks for the videos and it is nice sharing this in our tiny community of people interested in these topics that are dispersed around the world and will probably never meet in person. ;D

I agree with some of Durkheim's ideas. We're excessively individualistic, we are disillusioned easily and often forget the value of community, spirituality and enjoying one another in this system. BUT...Durkheim's ideas can be taken another way. He barely mentions the sadness, the repression, the violence, the unfairness, the inequality of traditional societies, painting a rosy and romantic view of them. What about the "deviants?" What about those who yearn for something more than what their tribe/clan/society has laid out for them? What about those who desire choice and autonomy? Or the ability to create a new community? It's important to note the perils of "excessive individualism and freedom" are no worse than the perils of repressive societies.

That's Emilie Zola in the thumbnail picture not Durkheim

These videos are great guys never stop

I agree with most of Durkeim's views,but more needs be made of the fact that happiness is mainly relative/ comparative. Comparing ourselves and what we have with that of others is the stuff of self induced frustration. Enjoying others' qualities while consciously steering clear of comparisons - takes daily effort for a while,but is an attainable and worthwhile attitude, Capitalism notwithstanding.

Bro you’re using pictures of Emile Zola

I still remember some very badly informed teachers who simply reduced Durkheim to shallow positivism. His contribuition was very importart indeed. Nowadays, the state of the art in sociological studies are much closer to his approach than others...

SO MUCH BETTER THAN CRASHCOURSE TBH!!!

I relatively like to compare ideas, in this case, Durkheim and Weber and their view on how 'capitalism' and 'modernity' takes root in society

I need publications on empirical research on the theory of anomie by Emil Durkheim and Robert K. Merton.

well the suicide rate could have been cause due to changing society.

Would love if you did Bourdieu and Bauman also

Terence McKenna has the solution to Durkheim's issue of society needing a balance of freedom and belonging. McKenna himself didn't provid the solution out of nothing or from his own mind, more so gave us a direction towards it.

I think the reported suicide rates are higher in industrialized nations are higher because: 1. Industrialized nations are better at keeping track of these things. 2. It's easier to "disappear" in rural areas. People could simply run away and kill themselves in the woods. In an urban environment, it's harder to hide one's body. 3. In more rural areas, people tend to cover these things up because they are embarrassing to the family. Depression and suicide are a result of an imbalance in the brain, not capitalism.

0:26 I'm sorry but that is Emile Zola right there and not Emile Durkheim.

The Scandinavian way of socialism fix it

0:27 The picture at 27 secs is Emile Zola, not Durkheim.

These videos are the keys.