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'Contribution of Emile Durkheim (bullet points) Religion Durkheim believed that matinee idol concept is collective creation and power that is employ by groups to direct the behaviour of its members. The basic principles of organized religion and rituals is to keep solidarity in the society especially in the periods of conflict. Function of religion is non to worship the deity but the society. Within part of get Durkheim make clear distinction between mechanical and perfect solidarity.\r\nMechanical solidarity is characterised in traditional societies with simple division of labour. individual(a)s argon highly constrained by the values, norms and normal of the society. When member deviates from this norms he might be or so probably rejected by the group. Individualism is not supported ad full stops of freedom ar few. positive solidarity is common for contemporary societies where there is higher distinction of labour. Differentiation of labour is happening in sexual inter course to population density.\r\nMore and more people ar living in same area with similar activities. Tension is rising, and the only way to overcome these tensions is to strike more specialised activities. Division of labour develops in relation to population density. Individuals are having their own specialities and are mutually dependent. Differentiated societies are creating unique individual. Individual has personal opinion, religion, freedom…. and there is clear furrow between them and society (private problems and public concerns).\r\nThe division of labour is not making only marked swop relationship but the feeling of solidarity. Social solidarity consists of consolidation of individuals and regulation. Social solidarity is social fact that can be observed only by external indicators, interchangeable the law. Law tends to be repressive and restitutive. Conformity in mechanic society is held by repressive system, temporary hookup conformity in organic societies is held by restituitive force. cardinal abnormal situations in organic societies is anomie and egoism.\r\nself-destruction He explained suicide in terms of the degree to which a person is joined into social life. At the low end of social unity, there is estranged suicide, in which people destroy themselves because social bonds frighten away and life becomes meaningless to them. Then when people are tightly integrated and there is a flagellum to the social group, people may sacrifice themselves in order to protect the group. Anomic suicide likewise proved that suicide increases as society waterfall apart.\r\n'