Emile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods
The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim''s effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic, that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit (''the horde''), rather than the family, and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-i...
The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim''s effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic, that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit (''the horde''), rather than the family, and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-i...
