Society (1917)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20063363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emile Durkheim (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1982 |
| Pages | 248-248 |
| Publication date | 1982-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Rules of Sociological Method (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Macmillan Education UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-349-16939-9_17 |
| OpenAlex | W4256606024 |
| ISBN | 9781349169399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
The great difference between animal societies and human societies is that in the former, the individual creature is governed exclusively from within itself, by the instincts (except for a slight degree of individual education, which itself depends upon instinct). On the other hand human societies present a new phenomenon of a special nature, which consists in the fact that certain ways of acting are imposed, or at least suggested from outside the individual and are added on to his own nature: such is the character of the 'institutions' (in the broad sense of the word) which the existence of language makes possible, and of which language itself is an example. They take on substance as individuals succeed each other without this succession destroying their continuity; their presence is the distinctive characteristic of human societies, and the proper subject of sociology
Epistemology · Human being · Instinct · Phenomenon · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · European Political History Analysis · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Ecology
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2005 - 2022 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |