There Is A Collective As Well As

Religious Representations Are Collective Representations Which Express Collective Realities.

The Term Suicide Is Applied To All Cases Of Death Resulting Directly Or Indirectly From A Positive Or Negative Act Of The Victim Himself, Which He Knows Will Produce This Result

The First And Most Basic Rule Is To Consider Social Facts As Things.

Society Is Not A Mere Sum Of Individuals. Rather, The System Formed By Their Association Represents A Specific Reality Which Has Its Own Characteristics... The Group Thinks, Feels, And Acts Quite Differently From The Way In Which Its Members Would Were They Isolated. If, Then, We Begin With The Individual, We Shall Be Able To Understand Nothing Of What Takes Place In The Group.

There Is No Sociology Worthy Of The Name Which Does Not Possess A Historical Character.