Sociology: Emile Durkheim

Hello, today i'm going to talk about an important sociologist, who mades big contributions to the foundation of the sociology like a science: Emile Durkheim.

I discover Durkheim in the asignature of Sociologic Theory 1 in the last semester, and it was a french sociologist that was active between 1893 to 1912, with Karl Marx and Max Weber is considered a classic of the sociology. Durkheim perfected the positivist perspective of Comte, mainly to find the permanent forms of the society, putting up the eyes in what he called social facts. 

A social fact is all way of do , feel and think that has coercive power since the subject to the exterior or on the subject, is the study object of the sociology of Durkheim.

One of the first contributions of the author was related to the social job division, he propose that this fact was a point of break in the conformation and structure of the society, since the traditional society to the modern. Durkheim propose that the mainly changed was the norms of mutual dependence, show that in the traditional society predominates a  mechanic solidarity of similar parts characterized for the social cohesion, and for the other side shows that in the modern society predominates a organic solidarity of different and specialized  parts, characterized for be a complex society in where all depends of all, so it becomes necessary the constant collaboration of the people in the middle of the competence. 

A second contribution of Durkheim was the study of the phenomenon of suicide, in where propose that the suicide is explained by social facts, apart of the psychology facts. He says that in some social conditions are more probable the event of suicide, for example he says that in protestant society's are more suicides that in catholic society's, and that in war moments are less suicides that in peace moments.