Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Émile Durkheim

Durkheim had the belief that culture has many relationships to society which include:
Logical- Power over individuals belong to certain cultural categories, and beliefs such as God.
Functional- Certain rites and myths create build social order up more by having people create strong beliefs, the more people who believe in these myths will strengthen social order.
Historical- Culture had its origins in society, and from those experiences came evolution into things such as classification systems.

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