SOCIOLOGY - Émile Durkheim

'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.

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

This man was so ahead of his time

I was just trying to review and now im depressed lol

What an articulate and insightful video. It's like you know all this stuff deep down but you could never reach inside yourself and address it. And when you hear him say it out loud, it sounds like a bloody epiphany. Excellent work!

“Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.” — Émile Durkheim (00:00) “Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.” — Émile Durkheim (00:07) “Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.” — Émile Durkheim (00:14) “Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.” — Émile Durkheim (00:21) “Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.” — Émile Durkheim (00:28) “A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.” — Émile Durkheim (00:35) “When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.” — Émile Durkheim (00:42) “If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.” — Émile Durkheim (00:49) “Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.” — Émile Durkheim (00:56) “Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.” — Émile Durkheim (01:03) “Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.” — Émile Durkheim (01:10) “It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.” — Émile Durkheim (01:17) “To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.” — Émile Durkheim (01:24) “Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.” — Émile Durkheim (01:31) “When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.” — Émile Durkheim (01:38) “A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.” — Émile Durkheim (01:45) “Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.” — Émile Durkheim (01:52) “Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.” — Émile Durkheim (01:59) “At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.” — Émile Durkheim (02:06) “One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or – which is the same thing – when his goal is infinity.” — Émile Durkheim (02:13)

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

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)

thank you for these videos! I really enjoy them and it always makes me have a new perspective on life, failures may make us ashamed but they’re the building blocks to help us start again and have a new perspective, please keep them coming! 🌻

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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!

Very informative, makes me want to dive deeper into sociology! Durkheim certainly diagnosed the modern world's illnesses.

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

The School of Life is the best thing that could have happened to YouTube. Thank you for spreading knowledge

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

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).

I think the sociology videos are the most pertinent of all school of life videos. Please keep the focus here! And great work. :)

Why didn’t I find this excellent explanation during my sociology class last semester in college? I did research and things but this is so well done. I like this channel.

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