SOC EXAM 1: consensus perspective - Durkheim's concepts with 100% perfect answers 2024

collective effevescence correct answersperceived social energy that emerges from crowd solidarity, produced by group's rituals/actions -> energy that exists in mass EX: game day! social solidarity / the consensus perspective correct answersthe idea of society having a consensus about what is good, bad, truthful or harmful anomie correct answersindividual or group wide feelings of aimlessness or purposelessness, provoked by certain social conditions - feel "cut off from social group" - feel like you don't have a purpose collective conscience correct answersthe communal beliefs that belong to a society... considered "common sense" - things everyone knows are right/wrong - baseline of shared morals - "social glue" of society ex: when a celebrity commits a crime, it CONFIRMS our COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE; we know what they did was wrong. mechanical solidarity correct answerssimple societies - everyone has the same role & does the same thing --> rituals, day-to-day lives, etc. - not really individual; group = the individual - pre-modern EX: Brazilian rainforest tribe organic solidarity correct answerscomplex societies - everyone has their own specialized day w/ different roles - individual identity is the center - higher populated EX: any modern day city: Omaha, Lawrence, etc. EX: get shirt - cotton was grown by someone, picked by another person, sold by another person, etc. Durkheim's view on CRIME & its FUNCTION within society correct answersthe idea that crime reaffirms our collective conscience, so it is in a way NEEDED - realize what is right/wrong - leads to social agreement therefore and sometimes standing up for what we believe in