'Excessive hope' really got me thinking about the current entrepreneur culture, and also how social media tricks young people into believing that if they are not a boss and millionnaire by 25 they have failed life.
Yes!!! There is this idea that if you don’t have everything by 25 you failed. When in reality, society asks way more time of us than this. My husband and I are still reliant on family for financial means. My husband’s career is only about a third of the way done (medicine). This Places us in this weird situation where we want independence and feel we should already have it. But it’s literally impossible.
Christopher Smith thats a good question. My intuition says it’s advertising that makes these claims. Like before this video, there’s the ad of “I made $20,000 sitting at home. Join my crew” and all that type of stuff. That’s my guess at least.
im not so sure he was ahead of his time, I think we just were born into times he already could see.....so I think we have it wrong with that saying, I think he was saying this at the right time......and nothing has been done, it's gotten worse, the prophecies of the philosophers about the coming age of technological bondage is coming, we see it man, quantum supremacy, all in the hands of the elite, all these shifts, the another industrial revolution is knocking on our door right now, and we are in it full swing, "working from home" is the start of the wave, companies seeing that it's feasible, tech is rapidly advancing.......it's happening now. uncontrollably.
What an articulate and insightful video. It's like you know all this stuff deep down but you could never reach inside yourself and address it. And when you hear him say it out loud, it sounds like a bloody epiphany. Excellent work!
“Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.” - Émile Durkheim (00:00) “Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.” - Émile Durkheim (00:07) “Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.” - Émile Durkheim (00:14) “Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.” - Émile Durkheim (00:21) “Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.” - Émile Durkheim (00:28) “A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.” - Émile Durkheim (00:35) “When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.” - Émile Durkheim (00:42) “If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.” - Émile Durkheim (00:49) “Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.” - Émile Durkheim (00:56) “Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.” - Émile Durkheim (01:03) “Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.” - Émile Durkheim (01:10) “It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.” - Émile Durkheim (01:17) “To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.” - Émile Durkheim (01:24) “Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.” - Émile Durkheim (01:31) “When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.” - Émile Durkheim (01:38) “A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.” - Émile Durkheim (01:45) “Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.” - Émile Durkheim (01:52) “Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.” - Émile Durkheim (01:59) “At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.” - Émile Durkheim (02:06) “One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.” - Émile Durkheim (02:13)
my exact mindset when i talk to athiest, i am a christian and even if you dont believe or hate on religion, it is important on giving people hope and a way to this world. having a purpose or something to appreciate everyday is the reason why religion is a blessing for society
the main idea of Durkheim is "social fact" (structural functional), he sees human action are based on what society demand on us and how capitalism and modernity change the way human interact (from mechanic to organic solidarity)
There is a very beautiful poem in hindi ... It tells how even a bird in a cage knows that outside there are dangers awaiting it. Yet whenever given chance, the gate of cage opens it always flies away.... Freedom always triumphs
Watching this clip, all i can say is: The degree of one's genius lies in his ability to see the unseen and think the unthinkable. This man was way ahead of his time perfectly describing the reason behind the agonies of 'The Modern Life'
this is really interesting as a student of sociology - often Durkheim is given a short 30 min lecture and then its on with what many of my lecturers see as the "big" sociologist like marx, weber etc. i learned a good deal of new things about Durkheim thanks to this :)
In the study of history one of the most profound things I've learned is deceptively simple, that culture moves in multiple streams simultaneously. That makes chasing cause and effect quite tricky. One could easily argue that fashion and pop music affected the '60s more than politics, philosophy or war. (I'm not sure that's correct; but it isn't a difficult argument to make...) So tying the immense upheaval of the industrial revolution and the transition from mercantile feudalism to modern capitalism is arguable as a concept, but a lot of other things were happening simultaneously, too. Durkheim mentions naive interpretations of religious ideas becoming less tenable. But changes in family structure may be as linked to changes in transportation technology as they are to changes in job opportunities. In the 18th century very, very few people ended up 50 miles away from where they were born; today very few will end up in the town of their birth or childhood. If one's parents are a 1000 miles away it's easier to ignore them than if they live next door. But the stuff about suicide does give one pause. (Or it should!) My favorite line from Marx (I'm not going to look up the exact quote) is along the lines that there is something rotten in the heart of an economic system that increases a nation's wealth without diminishing its misery. It is hard to argue against that! - even if, ultimately, your conclusions are far from the ones Marx arrived at...
Marx and Durkheim differed on many things, but at the heart of their differences lays the role of society in shaping life of the individual, in particular, the division of labour. While Durkheim concluded the collective conscience existing due to one's subscription to his society defined the division of labor, Marx argued it was due to class distinction. Their reactions to capitalism and changing life of man in the transitional society were different as well. Though they were both correct in many ways, it just goes to show two correct conclusions from the same context can be determined; further supporting your point. But what really is correct and incorrect in sociology? :)
The interesting and so close to reality quote you mentioned from Marx, reminded me of something interesting I came across a while back where it went along the lines that currently in the US, the nation's wealth is not being increased and there is no sense of productivity, only that the speed and acceleration of the civilians' income being put into the pocket of the few elites has increased. Currently, there is something extremely rotten in the flow of where the nation's already rotten wealth is going. Misery squared I suppose...
@@mmendi1114 I haven't seen the stats that would support that, but anecdotally it does seem true, especially in terms of the housing market and rents, at least where I live. I see many of my young friends either giving well over half their income for rent or pushed out of the city altogether. While the person(s) collecting those rents are not the fellow citizen who bought a rental house but a real estate investment company or real estate investment trust's absentee owners...
+Marita Mazanishvili The moment I laid my eyes at your DP...I had this strange barrage of epiphany bombardment that you like Existentialism and watch French movies ! =)
this video has a tendency towards over valuing capitalism as a big part of durkheims work. this is not how I read him at all. it is rather modernity (example: the transition between mechanical solidarity to organical solidarity) that creates something he called anomie (comparable to Hobbes state of natural conflict).
These videos are too awesome to have annotations in the corner the whole time, seriously, you guys don't need this. If a person is capable of capturing even a fraction of the value of this channel, they will subscribe no matter what.
thank you for these videos! I really enjoy them and it always makes me have a new perspective on life, failures may make us ashamed but they’re the building blocks to help us start again and have a new perspective, please keep them coming! 🌻
I have an exam tomorrow and I'm trying to catch up on the classic sociologists, but don't want to spend too much time on it so these videos are perfect! Really grateful for your work here, thank you!
Leah Patek hahaha, good one! I'm on the other end: beginning to understand what maybe wrong with me or with the world I "belong" to after an existential collapse.
The School of Life is absolutely brilliant! I wish I learnt this at school! I have questioned myself and now it all makes sense. I’m internalising this amazing knowledge like a sponge! Keep up with the great work. Many thanks ❤️👍🤩
What an amazing page you guys have created. I was exactly thinking about starting to study by my self some sociology, psychology and philosophy. It will be fun and easy thanks to you!
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Can you also make a video on Durkheim and his theory on how we seek to band together in groups for comfort of our basic (evolutionary) human psychological needs of being in the protection of a group, and how this explains how we also seek to make outgroups to signal virtue to our own group?
Well done! My advice: find your tribe (people you can relate to, that share an interest you have.) Religion is not the only game in town when it comes to genuine community.
That's what my grandparents did, rejecting their parent's Lutheranism to embrace National Socialism. What did Campbell call it--following your 'bliss?'
@@christofeles63you are aware that doesn't encapsulate all people including that they where Christians who where apart of the nazis right including most nazis identified as Christians so this little rebuttal doesn't really work
@@miguelatkinson Oh, I thought my anecdotal remark about my German Grandparents referred to every human being on earth. Thank you for the correcting my confusion!
Missus Bee Alain de Botton's books are marvelous, and unique. He probably qualifies as a philosopher himself. As entertaining as Monty Python sometimes. An incredible social critic and crank, but very kind. Try reading "The News". And of course, "How Proust Can Change Your Life."
Why didn’t I find this excellent explanation during my sociology class last semester in college? I did research and things but this is so well done. I like this channel.
I like the part about religion. I used to be very religious as a kid but as I grew older I realized I'm agnostic. But recently I was approached by some people around my age, asking if I wanted to join their church. I don't believe everything they teach me but I like listening to what others believe. I'm open minded and I don't take the time to argue so I just nod or agree with what they say. I don't socialize much so it's nice to go to a place at least once a week where people are nice to me and I can socialize. I do wish I could find a group with my similar beliefs about the spiritual side of life and being happy about just being alive without worrying so much about relgion.
dude if you r not planning on converting to their religion, stop wasting their time and yours. Go do something real that will up your value, then you will get friends and bitches automatically for real. Church people are nice to you for no reason because they eventually want you to convert, although they are nice in general, but and for that reason.
These videos are very well presented and concise, the appropriate duration without doing a disservice to the ideas discussed; great job! I have one rather pedantic correction: the audio introduces Durkheim as a philosopher, however, he self-identified primarily as a sociologist. The same is the case with the Max Weber video. It wouldn't bother me if I didn't feel that sociology as a discipline needs to be able to lay claim to such key figures of social thought. Apart from that, thanks for all the great material!
The way I read his work, it was more about the personal expectations being different from the realities and the gap between them determined a level of internal dread. Simultaneously, I read a paper pointing out that without exception, everyone that jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge was facing the city, not outward toward the ocean. He also touched a little on the gratitude aspect in religious structures and the restorative nature of such.
You the individual, are the most important person in your life. Only you can get you into better physical shape, you alone can sell more at work, you alone can decide to not watch TV and create music to stream. Community is important, but it starts with you the individual.
I think what Durkheim understands, that many people don't today, is that our society is characterized by a lack of regulation which is what freedom means for us. Our problems don't come from society's control over us or its elites, as many on the left try to argue, but our society's lack of control. Don't get me wrong, the power that our governments and corporations have is immense and on a whole other scale to any other period in history but on the condition that they don't interfere. This has left us in a great paradox whereby we crave more sociality but hate the idea of having to give up freedoms to do so. I think the reason why all previous societies to ours were so regulated were because freedom is dangerous, it allows for rivalry, envy and vengeance as you maintain the agency to achieve your own ends and this will put us in rivalry with others as the nature of desire is reliant on other people to affirm what it is your desiring. So a regulated society tells you what and what not to desire, tells you this is your path and if you don't like it well tough because the sacred/divine principles say that it must be so. We lack this because our society is so desacralized, we can't refer our ideals to a reference above society itself. Which leads to more rivalry and confusion than ever before despite our freedoms.
I was really put back for a moment on reason 3. I thought it was crazy for me to think that too much freedom could make you unhappy. As a child, you weren't really free. Your parents did much of your choices and took you to places but you were still pretty darn happy, even with all those moments of unfairness. Restrictions can be a good thing.
I don't want to be a bore, but I believe that the portrait in the thumbnail, the one that appears at 0:24 in the video, isn't actually Durkheim, but another Émile, Émile Zola, the creator of naturalism, a french literary school.
well, I love love love love your videos, but I feel that Durkheim's argument is more complicated than this, it is more of a counter-intuitive argument when it comes to RELIGION and suicide. It’s not knowledge that produces suicide; rather, it is the loss of cohesion in a religious society that drives people to seek to learn and the same thing that leads some to commit suicide... He thinks Jews or Catholics are committing less suicide because they are practicing solidarity but eventually the disorganizations in religion lead to restlessness and suicide. So he suggests learning and roots for knowledge as the only way that one can survive by reconstructing conscience when the social instinct becomes blunted.
Indeed, these videos show a very one sided perspective of the actual theoretical discourse set by any sociologist/philosopher in the sense of ''self help'' method one can incorporate to understand the functions of society by claiming to know that root of all the actual problems is merely subsided in the asimetric position of the Dominated and the dominative. Emile Durkheim was a functionalist, who studied the integrity of modern society and it's historical subject in a sense, that he understood its main function to be an institutional and collective integration of the before mentioned subject into society, by means of education and family and normative values, which one must learn about and ''interiorize'' to be a productive member of the holistic society. I really don't see, how the ONLY mainly relevant things of his theory could be the studies about suicide and the way somebody maintained their integrity in the late 19th and early 20th century ''heavy'' modernity Still, i guess, most of these videos are as informative as they can get for an average person, who doesn't study sociology or philosophy
A few years ago a psychologist expressed the belief that our mechanised word contributed greatly to the surge of depression in the later part of the 20th century. Automation of tasks once undertaken by hand have resulted in a loss of pleasure: our brain is geared to reward us for the tasks we now take to be mundane - we've lost out. A couple of the profiles highlighted (William and Ruskin) at SoL have emphasized the importance of being hands on. Tolstoy was another to emphasize the improtance of learning a craft.
Are you not going to upload any other explanations of other scholars and academicians? This was so interesting and thoroughly revived a sense of connecting to my almost lost interest in political science. I really hope to see more of this by your team. Your videos really make the ideas flow and the use of language and vocab is a treat. Thankyou🌿🌟 I hope we can see more of your work on these topics soon~🌸
7:40... Anyone who thinks very independently is forced to learn one harsh lesson from those susceptible to group think: If it all works out,they always knew it,and if it doesn't work out...they always knew it! Conformists always have a very low pain threshold for disappointment because they do not live life as an experiment,but as an attempt to capture happiness in stasis...
Families are much more connected (through one's whole lifetime!) in Mediterranean societies, I assure you. People there are both capitalist, but still hold more collectivist traditional values when it comes to family. This has some pros and cons too, of course. Like it's not weird to stay in your parents' house after you've reached 25+ and they'll always be there to aid you financially, but they'll also get to have saying on how you raise your children and constantly berate you as well.
Through your content I've become acquainted with quite a few counter-capitalist thinkers. I love how constructively and gently you communicate their ideas. It's plain to me now that there are plentiful critiques of capitalism before you get to someone like Marx; your videos do a fine job of getting across that the system can be improved, one step at a time instead of with some great overhaul. Addressing the culture of individualism would be a good thing. As for religion and nationalism... a nouveau Cult of the Supreme Being, anyone?
***** I'm a critic of free market capitalism but I am no communist or socialist. I hold socialist views but I dislike the aforementioned political ideologies because they too quickly become secular religions. My problem is with mindless consumerism and such huge financial iniquity.
***** That's a nice text you've written here. I however think capitalism will always give more power to particular groups of people which can use it to maintain their social position. You can not control capitalism, because it is based on people getting rich on other people's back. I've got two questions for you: 1. Do you think capitalism can be controlled and possibly lead to a free and equal society? 2. What do you think of Anarcho-communism? :)
GnarlyBroMr I suppose you don't have any trouble with the idea that many capitalist businesses have now essentially farmed out their labor markets to that same communist China, forcing American workers to have to compete with rock-bottom-wage workers that are being subsidized by the Chinese government?
+21stCenturyExaminedLife Consumerism is a natural outcome of capitalism. When a society depends on free enterprise to bring goods and services to the market and to provide employment for the members of such society, it needs to focus on profits. In a free enterprise system, profits can only arise if there are sales and sales require consumers to consume. Not only to consume those things which are needed, but also to consume things that are desired or wanted, this produces more profits and more jobs for the society at large. Marketing is the natural outcome of free enterprise and competition, I need to advertise and market my services better than my competitors that way I can get the sale and maintain profits and pay my employees. The more clever my marketing is, the more you will want to buy what I have to sell even though you may not need it; it is logical that I will produce marketing that will psychologically affect your desires and emotions to influence you to buy what I am selling, even if you do not need it. On the other hand, of the equation, employees work harder to make money, to buy those material things they want. If everyone does not want material things, they would not be willing to exchange their time for money (or maybe only do so at a minimum level) and therefore, without a sufficient labor supply, I will not be able to produce a profit and I will go out of business and provide no jobs and those employees that wanted to work (even a little bit) will not have any money to even purchase those things that they actually need; this will eventually have a snowball effect. Consumption is the engine of a capitalist economic society and therefore, consumerism is its byproduct. Therefore, a reduction in consumption or investment will cause an economic decline or depression, the only way to prevent this economic decline is through government spending and this is where socialism enters the picture. When there is more socialism, less consumerism is required for the economy to function. The key is to find the optimal solution, which may vary based on culture and this is the reason why we have mixed economies. Also, it is much easier for someone who is not materialistic to live a simple life in a society based on consumerism rather than in society based on socialism because, like Durkheim so poignantly stated, a capitalistic society has more individual choice and freedom but it can cause more poverty and economic calamity, if it is unfettered.
I just discovered your channel (I am the Columbus of RUclips) and I must say, I find it most entertaining! Good stuff! I think a video about Paul Goodman would be swell.
Very interesting topic, the role institutions play in creating cohesion among individuals is often overlooked nowadays. Not that I advocate rigid class systems or dogmatic religion but I think in the West we sorely lack institutions to bring us together and give us a sense of belonging. It's the old double-edged sword of an individualistic society, so many freedoms and so much isolation. Most people still meet their friends and spouses through the institutions of school, work, church, military, even prison.
1. Not failure as a general category, but [yes failure] to put forth a self image that is competitive with other self-images. One might rather be ugly and not rich, so as to not have to support such identities... failing in two major categories of social value, but succeeding in every other thing of value for oneself.
This is a wonderful exposition of capitalism by Émile Durkheim, in a very short video. I would also like to add that his findings are more valid today as capitalism is facing greater crisis due to its internal contradictions. We often tend to forget that mother nature has made the human race as interdependent social beings. If any system tries to take away the closely-knit social bonding and make humans behave as individuals, then happiness is bound to be a casualty. No amount of wealth can heal the deep insecurity and unhappiness within us.
Durkheim was aware of the need of social cohesion, but he was equally aware of the protection of individuality as sacred. He was heavily influenced by neo-Kantianism and its emphasis on individual autonomy. In his involvement in the infamous Dreyfus-affair, he argued against the sacrifice of an individual for the sake of the health of the community and nation at large. He always balanced between the communal and individual needs of human life.
Hi, I really enjoy your videos, but English being my second language it is quite difficult for me to understand certain words, for people like me, I would like you to consider maybe putting the script in the description box or any solution you may consider. Thanks for your videos.
Ricardo E Ricado, youtube has a CC box, which stands for closed caption. If you click on that the words will appear as text underneath the pictures. I admit sometimes it doesn't work very wel, and mixes up the words, so they don't make sense. But sometimes it works fine. It has trouble with people's accents. For example, it can't understand when de Botton says Durkheim and miss-translates it, or maybe because that name is not a part of its dictionary. .
I think the second picture of Durkheim you put (the one with hair and small glasses that is display on the link) is a picture of émile Zola, a French writer, not Durkheim. I might be wrong, if it is the case I am sorry. Anyway, it is an occasion to suggest Zola as a subject. I think it's a pity he isn't more popular in Anglo-Saxon.
Germens, I think , are really one of the most intelligent people on earth . I have seen many videos and Germen Philosopher , Sociologist always nailed it . They always come up with some really great ideas . Though I do not agree with all of them yet they make really great point which is hard to evade . I personally want to visit Germany one day , except i think people must be very serious type there .
in the middle of culture crisis, his thoughts are still alive. The crisis is continuing, and all of the cultures were destroyed because of their downsides. and it seems there's nothing left to lean on. the predictions he made look more accurate these days.
Only learnt of this guy's existence today and I'm a fairly well-educated 51 year old! A quote of Mansur Hoda comes to mind: “ Development does not only mean the increased production of goods but also the development of people, the stimulation of their innate abilities, giving them a feeling of self-determination, self-respect, self-reliance and enthusiasm. Unless people are involved in the process of development and are given a chance to do something worthwhile, to grasp new ideas, acquire new skills and develop a sense of their own worth, no society can move out of misery and poverty”. Have an awesome day 🧡
I love these videos. But it would almost certainly be better, if we were provided a script, so we could sit down ourselves, revise what we have watched, and think about them deeply.
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interesting videos ... i thank you for this amazing work, but what do you think about making videos concerning the pioneers of Chicago school?? like E.Park, Louis Wirth, Burgess...and their theories about urban ethnology and sociology .... i guess it would be really educational don't you think so?
+The School of Life Can you guys create some videos regarding Economics? I realized that you made some videos regarding Economists, including Karl Marx and Adam Smith, but I just think it would be an interesting series. Maybe do some videos regarding Hayek or Friedman, or even Keynes. Either way keep up with the good work I love your vids.
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'Excessive hope' really got me thinking about the current entrepreneur culture, and also how social media tricks young people into believing that if they are not a boss and millionnaire by 25 they have failed life.
Yes!!! There is this idea that if you don’t have everything by 25 you failed. When in reality, society asks way more time of us than this. My husband and I are still reliant on family for financial means. My husband’s career is only about a third of the way done (medicine). This Places us in this weird situation where we want independence and feel we should already have it. But it’s literally impossible.
Who makes these claims?
Christopher Smith thats a good question. My intuition says it’s advertising that makes these claims. Like before this video, there’s the ad of “I made $20,000 sitting at home. Join my crew” and all that type of stuff. That’s my guess at least.
I agree with u, but in some other parts of the world, people don't even have hope if rising at all.
Thanks for the comment! U gave our group project an A by mentioning your theory
6 years ago: watching school of life as a student
Today: still watching again but as a teacher.
This channel contributed a lot into what I am today.
6 years ago, made a McLovin profile. Today, still McLovin life^
Thank you for teaching.
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5 years ago, i watch this and Max Weber for just the sake of gaining knowledge. Now i'm studying for my graduation exam.
@@biakahmar9171 hope it went well! I’m studying some sociology for undergrad, plan to possibly look deeper into it later on in grad
This man was so ahead of his time
Exactly
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im not so sure he was ahead of his time, I think we just were born into times he already could see.....so I think we have it wrong with that saying, I think he was saying this at the right time......and nothing has been done, it's gotten worse, the prophecies of the philosophers about the coming age of technological bondage is coming, we see it man, quantum supremacy, all in the hands of the elite, all these shifts, the another industrial revolution is knocking on our door right now, and we are in it full swing, "working from home" is the start of the wave, companies seeing that it's feasible, tech is rapidly advancing.......it's happening now. uncontrollably.
He is a great candid for us democrats. I think his ideas are worth less
What an articulate and insightful video. It's like you know all this stuff deep down but you could never reach inside yourself and address it. And when you hear him say it out loud, it sounds like a bloody epiphany. Excellent work!
“Each new generation is reared by its predecessor; the latter must therefore improve in order to improve its successor. The movement is circular.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:00)
“Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:07)
“Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:14)
“Science cannot describe individuals, but only types. If human societies cannot be classified, they must remain inaccessible to scientific description.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:21)
“Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:28)
“A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:35)
“When man discovered the mirror, he began to lose his soul.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:42)
“If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:49)
“Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free him from all social pressure is to abandon him to himself and demoralize him.”
- Émile Durkheim (00:56)
“Man is only a moral being because he lives in society, since morality consists in solidarity with the group, and varies according to that solidarity. Cause all social life to vanish, and moral life would vanish at the same time, having no object to cling to.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:03)
“Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:10)
“It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:17)
“To pursue a goal which is by definition unattainable is to condemn oneself to a state of perpetual unhappiness.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:24)
“Socialism is not a science, a sociology in miniature: it is a cry of pain.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:31)
“When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:38)
“A person is not merely a single subject distinguished from all the others. It is especially a being to which is attributed a relative autonomy in relation to the environment with which it is most immediately in contact.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:45)
“Man seeks to learn, and man kills himself because of the loss of cohesion in his religious society; he does not kill himself because of his learning. It is certainly not the learning he acquires that disorganizes religion; but the desire for knowledge wakens because religion becomes disorganized.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:52)
“Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.”
- Émile Durkheim (01:59)
“At first sight, one does not see what relations there can be between religion and logic.”
- Émile Durkheim (02:06)
“One does not advance when one walks toward no goal, or - which is the same thing - when his goal is infinity.”
- Émile Durkheim (02:13)
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This guy narrates well - it really feels like Durkheim is sharing his thoughts with us.
Totally agree. It also supported by the fascinating illustration
my exact mindset when i talk to athiest, i am a christian and even if you dont believe or hate on religion, it is important on giving people hope and a way to this world. having a purpose or something to appreciate everyday is the reason why religion is a blessing for society
I was just trying to review and now im depressed lol
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the main idea of Durkheim is "social fact" (structural functional), he sees human action are based on what society demand on us and how capitalism and modernity change the way human interact (from mechanic to organic solidarity)
There is a very beautiful poem in hindi ... It tells how even a bird in a cage knows that outside there are dangers awaiting it. Yet whenever given chance, the gate of cage opens it always flies away.... Freedom always triumphs
Watching this clip, all i can say is:
The degree of one's genius lies in his ability to see the unseen and think the unthinkable.
This man was way ahead of his time perfectly describing the reason behind the agonies of 'The Modern Life'
Has anyone pointed out that the photo in the thumbnail isn't a photo of Emile Durkheim but of French Novelist Emile Zola? Wrong Emile guys
Very informative, makes me want to dive deeper into sociology! Durkheim certainly diagnosed the modern world's illnesses.
this is really interesting as a student of sociology - often Durkheim is given a short 30 min lecture and then its on with what many of my lecturers see as the "big" sociologist like marx, weber etc.
i learned a good deal of new things about Durkheim thanks to this :)
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Strange, in my criminology lectures we had an entire hour on his perspectives. His writing is very insightful
In the study of history one of the most profound things I've learned is deceptively simple, that culture moves in multiple streams simultaneously. That makes chasing cause and effect quite tricky. One could easily argue that fashion and pop music affected the '60s more than politics, philosophy or war. (I'm not sure that's correct; but it isn't a difficult argument to make...) So tying the immense upheaval of the industrial revolution and the transition from mercantile feudalism to modern capitalism is arguable as a concept, but a lot of other things were happening simultaneously, too. Durkheim mentions naive interpretations of religious ideas becoming less tenable. But changes in family structure may be as linked to changes in transportation technology as they are to changes in job opportunities. In the 18th century very, very few people ended up 50 miles away from where they were born; today very few will end up in the town of their birth or childhood. If one's parents are a 1000 miles away it's easier to ignore them than if they live next door.
But the stuff about suicide does give one pause. (Or it should!) My favorite line from Marx (I'm not going to look up the exact quote) is along the lines that there is something rotten in the heart of an economic system that increases a nation's wealth without diminishing its misery. It is hard to argue against that! - even if, ultimately, your conclusions are far from the ones Marx arrived at...
Interesting
Marx and Durkheim differed on many things, but at the heart of their differences lays the role of society in shaping life of the individual, in particular, the division of labour. While Durkheim concluded the collective conscience existing due to one's subscription to his society defined the division of labor, Marx argued it was due to class distinction. Their reactions to capitalism and changing life of man in the transitional society were different as well. Though they were both correct in many ways, it just goes to show two correct conclusions from the same context can be determined; further supporting your point. But what really is correct and incorrect in sociology? :)
The interesting and so close to reality quote you mentioned from Marx, reminded me of something interesting I came across a while back where it went along the lines that currently in the US, the nation's wealth is not being increased and there is no sense of productivity, only that the speed and acceleration of the civilians' income being put into the pocket of the few elites has increased. Currently, there is something extremely rotten in the flow of where the nation's already rotten wealth is going. Misery squared I suppose...
@@mmendi1114 I haven't seen the stats that would support that, but anecdotally it does seem true, especially in terms of the housing market and rents, at least where I live. I see many of my young friends either giving well over half their income for rent or pushed out of the city altogether. While the person(s) collecting those rents are not the fellow citizen who bought a rental house but a real estate investment company or real estate investment trust's absentee owners...
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this video has a tendency towards over valuing capitalism as a big part of durkheims work. this is not how I read him at all. it is rather modernity (example: the transition between mechanical solidarity to organical solidarity) that creates something he called anomie (comparable to Hobbes state of natural conflict).
I completely agree. This doesn´t give an accurate introduction to Durkheim. Neither the content nor the terminology is consentaneous.
My understanding is that Durkheims contribution is mainly in terms of methodology and functionalism.
Agreed, while I have learnt something indeed, it sadly doesn't cover a large amount of gray areas regarding his work that i intended to clarify.
Well it did introduce durkheim tho.
100% agree
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I have an exam tomorrow and I'm trying to catch up on the classic sociologists, but don't want to spend too much time on it so these videos are perfect! Really grateful for your work here, thank you!
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Durkheim is one of my favorite sociologists/philosophers
The guy in the thumbnail isnt Emile Durkheim, its Emile Zola, the novelist. Great video!
oh snap. I feel an existential crisis coming along.
Leah Patek hahaha, good one! I'm on the other end: beginning to understand what maybe wrong with me or with the world I "belong" to after an existential collapse.
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The picture at 0:25 is the French naturalist Émile Zola, not Émile Durkheim.
+Karl Marx really
+Guilherme Resende What?
+Karl Marx you are right. "really"
Actually, I'm pretty sure he is left.
Actually, it's Hegel.
you condense the essential information nicely. I read these in college and this is better than what I can remember
I freaking love this channel, thank you so much for this enriching and stimulating entertaining.
Can you also make a video on Durkheim and his theory on how we seek to band together in groups for comfort of our basic (evolutionary) human psychological needs of being in the protection of a group, and how this explains how we also seek to make outgroups to signal virtue to our own group?
still waiting for bourdieu on sociology series ;)
And Giddens...and Simmel
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Well done! My advice: find your tribe (people you can relate to, that share an interest you have.) Religion is not the only game in town when it comes to genuine community.
Nice counter argument 👍
That's what my grandparents did, rejecting their parent's Lutheranism to embrace National Socialism. What did Campbell call it--following your 'bliss?'
"My advice: find your tribe "
6 years on and i'm afraid your advice looks increasingly unnecessary with each passing week
@@christofeles63you are aware that doesn't encapsulate all people including that they where Christians who where apart of the nazis right including most nazis identified as Christians so this little rebuttal doesn't really work
@@miguelatkinson Oh, I thought my anecdotal remark about my German Grandparents referred to every human being on earth. Thank you for the correcting my confusion!
Really do love your writing style, School of Life / Alain de Botton! Simple, concise, engaging.
Missus Bee Alain de Botton's books are marvelous, and unique. He probably qualifies as a philosopher himself. As entertaining as Monty Python sometimes. An incredible social critic and crank, but very kind. Try reading "The News". And of course, "How Proust Can Change Your Life."
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Why didn’t I find this excellent explanation during my sociology class last semester in college? I did research and things but this is so well done. I like this channel.
I like the part about religion. I used to be very religious as a kid but as I grew older I realized I'm agnostic. But recently I was approached by some people around my age, asking if I wanted to join their church. I don't believe everything they teach me but I like listening to what others believe. I'm open minded and I don't take the time to argue so I just nod or agree with what they say. I don't socialize much so it's nice to go to a place at least once a week where people are nice to me and I can socialize. I do wish I could find a group with my similar beliefs about the spiritual side of life and being happy about just being alive without worrying so much about relgion.
I feel just the same! And how many people in the world attend a church just for the sake of their needs of companionship and belonging. :/
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dude if you r not planning on converting to their religion, stop wasting their time and yours. Go do something real that will up your value, then you will get friends and bitches automatically for real. Church people are nice to you for no reason because they eventually want you to convert, although they are nice in general, but and for that reason.
+Rebecca Monroe Indeed. that connection with another human being is a worship in its own right.
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I think the sociology videos are the most pertinent of all school of life videos. Please keep the focus here! And great work. :)
These videos are very well presented and concise, the appropriate duration without doing a disservice to the ideas discussed; great job!
I have one rather pedantic correction: the audio introduces Durkheim as a philosopher, however, he self-identified primarily as a sociologist. The same is the case with the Max Weber video. It wouldn't bother me if I didn't feel that sociology as a discipline needs to be able to lay claim to such key figures of social thought.
Apart from that, thanks for all the great material!
Durkheim is my favorite of any sociologists I've studied.
The way I read his work, it was more about the personal expectations being different from the realities and the gap between them determined a level of internal dread. Simultaneously, I read a paper pointing out that without exception, everyone that jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge was facing the city, not outward toward the ocean.
He also touched a little on the gratitude aspect in religious structures and the restorative nature of such.
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You the individual, are the most important person in your life. Only you can get you into better physical shape, you alone can sell more at work, you alone can decide to not watch TV and create music to stream. Community is important, but it starts with you the individual.
I think what Durkheim understands, that many people don't today, is that our society is characterized by a lack of regulation which is what freedom means for us. Our problems don't come from society's control over us or its elites, as many on the left try to argue, but our society's lack of control. Don't get me wrong, the power that our governments and corporations have is immense and on a whole other scale to any other period in history but on the condition that they don't interfere. This has left us in a great paradox whereby we crave more sociality but hate the idea of having to give up freedoms to do so. I think the reason why all previous societies to ours were so regulated were because freedom is dangerous, it allows for rivalry, envy and vengeance as you maintain the agency to achieve your own ends and this will put us in rivalry with others as the nature of desire is reliant on other people to affirm what it is your desiring. So a regulated society tells you what and what not to desire, tells you this is your path and if you don't like it well tough because the sacred/divine principles say that it must be so. We lack this because our society is so desacralized, we can't refer our ideals to a reference above society itself. Which leads to more rivalry and confusion than ever before despite our freedoms.
"The Elementary Forms of Religious Life" is one of my favorites.
Please explain the social functions of religion according to Durkheim
I was really put back for a moment on reason 3. I thought it was crazy for me to think that too much freedom could make you unhappy. As a child, you weren't really free. Your parents did much of your choices and took you to places but you were still pretty darn happy, even with all those moments of unfairness. Restrictions can be a good thing.
I highly recommend watching the TED talk or the book of "The Paradox of Choice"
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You said it! "we are all Durkheim's hiers"
Father of sociology, Daddy Durkheim
Please make more videos aboaut sociology. As a sociology studentt, i'm very helped and enjoyed your videos
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I don't want to be a bore, but I believe that the portrait in the thumbnail, the one that appears at 0:24 in the video, isn't actually Durkheim, but another Émile, Émile Zola, the creator of naturalism, a french literary school.
well, I love love love love your videos, but I feel that Durkheim's argument is more complicated than this, it is more of a counter-intuitive argument when it comes to RELIGION and suicide. It’s not knowledge that produces suicide; rather, it is the loss of cohesion in a religious society that drives people to seek to learn and the same thing that leads some to commit suicide... He thinks Jews or Catholics are committing less suicide because they are practicing solidarity but eventually the disorganizations in religion lead to restlessness and suicide. So he suggests learning and roots for knowledge as the only way that one can survive by reconstructing conscience when the social instinct becomes blunted.
Indeed, these videos show a very one sided perspective of the actual theoretical discourse set by any sociologist/philosopher in the sense of ''self help'' method one can incorporate to understand the functions of society by claiming to know that root of all the actual problems is merely subsided in the asimetric position of the Dominated and the dominative.
Emile Durkheim was a functionalist, who studied the integrity of modern society and it's historical subject in a sense, that he understood its main function to be an institutional and collective integration of the before mentioned subject into society, by means of education and family and normative values, which one must learn about and ''interiorize'' to be a productive member of the holistic society.
I really don't see, how the ONLY mainly relevant things of his theory could be the studies about suicide and the way somebody maintained their integrity in the late 19th and early 20th century ''heavy'' modernity
Still, i guess, most of these videos are as informative as they can get for an average person, who doesn't study sociology or philosophy
Most of these points about holistic structural functionalism are made in his work Education and Sociology
Your right dude, that was the first thing I thought halfway the video.
Incredibly well put.
Answers to his questions and troubles are clear in Islam the only real religon
Love this work! I'm a sociology major so it is very interesting to me. Thanks for the video.
i used his theory for my methodoligical research scope social scient. thank you for your contribution prof.
A few years ago a psychologist expressed the belief that our mechanised word contributed greatly to the surge of depression in the later part of the 20th century. Automation of tasks once undertaken by hand have resulted in a loss of pleasure: our brain is geared to reward us for the tasks we now take to be mundane - we've lost out. A couple of the profiles highlighted (William and Ruskin) at SoL have emphasized the importance of being hands on. Tolstoy was another to emphasize the improtance of learning a craft.
Thank you for all of your thoughtful work. They've helped me (and I would like to think lots of others as well) in my daily life. :)
I have an exam in Political Sociology tomorrow and this is exactly what I need, thank you!
lots of thanks from sociology sudents of india
As a university student studying sociology, this perfectly depicts durkheim and his theory of anomie and suicide!!
Are you not going to upload any other explanations of other scholars and academicians? This was so interesting and thoroughly revived a sense of connecting to my almost lost interest in political science. I really hope to see more of this by your team. Your videos really make the ideas flow and the use of language and vocab is a treat. Thankyou🌿🌟 I hope we can see more of your work on these topics soon~🌸
7:40... Anyone who thinks very independently is forced to learn one harsh lesson from those susceptible to group think:
If it all works out,they always knew it,and if it doesn't work out...they always knew it!
Conformists always have a very low pain threshold for disappointment because they do not live life as an experiment,but as an attempt to capture happiness in stasis...
Families are much more connected (through one's whole lifetime!) in Mediterranean societies, I assure you. People there are both capitalist, but still hold more collectivist traditional values when it comes to family.
This has some pros and cons too, of course. Like it's not weird to stay in your parents' house after you've reached 25+ and they'll always be there to aid you financially, but they'll also get to have saying on how you raise your children and constantly berate you as well.
I agree, my father was financially independent by the age of 38, but after that he kept living near his relatives and now he's 48
Through your content I've become acquainted with quite a few counter-capitalist thinkers. I love how constructively and gently you communicate their ideas. It's plain to me now that there are plentiful critiques of capitalism before you get to someone like Marx; your videos do a fine job of getting across that the system can be improved, one step at a time instead of with some great overhaul. Addressing the culture of individualism would be a good thing. As for religion and nationalism... a nouveau Cult of the Supreme Being, anyone?
***** I'm a critic of free market capitalism but I am no communist or socialist. I hold socialist views but I dislike the aforementioned political ideologies because they too quickly become secular religions. My problem is with mindless consumerism and such huge financial iniquity.
***** That's a nice text you've written here. I however think capitalism will always give more power to particular groups of people which can use it to maintain their social position. You can not control capitalism, because it is based on people getting rich on other people's back. I've got two questions for you:
1. Do you think capitalism can be controlled and possibly lead to a free and equal society?
2. What do you think of Anarcho-communism?
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GnarlyBroMr I suppose you don't have any trouble with the idea that many capitalist businesses have now essentially farmed out their labor markets to that same communist China, forcing American workers to have to compete with rock-bottom-wage workers that are being subsidized by the Chinese government?
By essentially, supporting communism to do so. Seems rather hypocritical to me, if you're really opposed to communism and not just a selfish jerk.
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Consumerism is a natural outcome of capitalism. When a society depends on free enterprise to bring goods and services to the market and to provide employment for the members of such society, it needs to focus on profits. In a free enterprise system, profits can only arise if there are sales and sales require consumers to consume. Not only to consume those things which are needed, but also to consume things that are desired or wanted, this produces more profits and more jobs for the society at large. Marketing is the natural outcome of free enterprise and competition, I need to advertise and market my services better than my competitors that way I can get the sale and maintain profits and pay my employees.
The more clever my marketing is, the more you will want to buy what I
have to sell even though you may not need it; it is logical that I will produce
marketing that will psychologically affect your desires and emotions to influence you to buy what I am selling, even if you do not need it. On the other hand, of the equation, employees work harder to make money, to buy those material things they want. If everyone does not want material things, they would not be willing to exchange their time for money (or maybe only do so at a minimum level) and therefore, without a sufficient labor supply, I will not be able to produce a profit and I will go out of business and provide no jobs and those employees that wanted to work (even a little bit) will not have any money to even purchase those things that they actually need; this will eventually have a snowball effect. Consumption is the engine of a capitalist economic society and therefore, consumerism is its byproduct.
Therefore, a reduction in consumption or investment will cause an economic decline or depression, the only way to prevent this economic decline is through government spending and this is where socialism enters the picture. When there is more socialism, less consumerism is required for the economy to function. The key is to find the optimal solution, which may vary based on culture and this is the reason why we have mixed economies. Also, it is much easier for someone who is not materialistic to live a simple life in a society based on consumerism rather than in society based on socialism because, like Durkheim so poignantly stated, a capitalistic society has more individual choice and freedom but it can cause more poverty and economic calamity, if it is unfettered.
DK Publishing's "The Sociology Book" brought me here. I'm currently in my 21st year of study at Dorling Kindersley University.
I am becoming addicted to these videos! Fantastic job! Thank you
i really do enjoy these videos, i wold love to see some videos about African philosophy and African political theory.
Yes much needed, as we don't hear and see any african philosophies, only strife and violence nowadays ! !
I have never been so out of joy in my short life, watching this feels like masochism
Hey man. Hope it got better over these last four years. And if not, I hope it does soon
then come back to it when you're older.
What's Émile Zola doing on the cover picture? :D
Great video anyway.
LOL nice spot
I just discovered your channel (I am the Columbus of RUclips) and I must say, I find it most entertaining! Good stuff! I think a video about Paul Goodman would be swell.
Very interesting topic, the role institutions play in creating cohesion among individuals is often overlooked nowadays. Not that I advocate rigid class systems or dogmatic religion but I think in the West we sorely lack institutions to bring us together and give us a sense of belonging. It's the old double-edged sword of an individualistic society, so many freedoms and so much isolation. Most people still meet their friends and spouses through the institutions of school, work, church, military, even prison.
1. Not failure as a general category, but [yes failure] to put forth a self image that is competitive with other self-images. One might rather be ugly and not rich, so as to not have to support such identities... failing in two major categories of social value, but succeeding in every other thing of value for oneself.
The man in the cover of the video is not Emile Durkheim, it's Emil Zola :)
Very interesting.
Thanks for the sociology lesson from Durkheim's point of view.
I look forward to more School of Life!
This is a wonderful exposition of capitalism by Émile Durkheim, in a very short video. I would also like to add that his findings are more valid today as capitalism is facing greater crisis due to its internal contradictions. We often tend to forget that mother nature has made the human race as interdependent social beings. If any system tries to take away the closely-knit social bonding and make humans behave as individuals, then happiness is bound to be a casualty. No amount of wealth can heal the deep insecurity and unhappiness within us.
Durkheim was aware of the need of social cohesion, but he was equally aware of the protection of individuality as sacred. He was heavily influenced by neo-Kantianism and its emphasis on individual autonomy. In his involvement in the infamous Dreyfus-affair, he argued against the sacrifice of an individual for the sake of the health of the community and nation at large. He always balanced between the communal and individual needs of human life.
hmmm. Glad people are calling out the misinformation. This is not a good representation of anomie, Durkheim, or his book Suicide.
0:27 The picture at 27 secs is Emile Zola, not Durkheim.
Hi, I really enjoy your videos, but English being my second language it is quite difficult for me to understand certain words, for people like me, I would like you to consider maybe putting the script in the description box or any solution you may consider.
Thanks for your videos.
Ricardo E Ricado, youtube has a CC box, which stands for closed caption. If you click on that the words will appear as text underneath the pictures. I admit sometimes it doesn't work very wel, and mixes up the words, so they don't make sense. But sometimes it works fine. It has trouble with people's accents. For example, it can't understand when de Botton says Durkheim and miss-translates it, or maybe because that name is not a part of its dictionary. .
I think the second picture of Durkheim you put (the one with hair and small glasses that is display on the link) is a picture of émile Zola, a French writer, not Durkheim. I might be wrong, if it is the case I am sorry.
Anyway, it is an occasion to suggest Zola as a subject. I think it's a pity he isn't more popular in Anglo-Saxon.
A master diagnostician of our ills.... couldn't have described this individual better.
This is so good. Grateful to find such a bright inquisitive Thinker in Durkeim
certainly I vigorously agree with you.It evokes me a sense of serenity and solace as well
These videos are always brilliant.
Germens, I think , are really one of the most intelligent people on earth . I have seen many videos and Germen Philosopher , Sociologist always nailed it . They always come up with some really great ideas . Though I do not agree with all of them yet they make really great point which is hard to evade . I personally want to visit Germany one day , except i think people must be very serious type there .
Yes! I've been hoping you guys would do a Durkheim video. Are you guys planning on doing a William James one?
***** Nice! Thanks for the reply.
in the middle of culture crisis, his thoughts are still alive. The crisis is continuing, and all of the cultures were destroyed because of their downsides. and it seems there's nothing left to lean on.
the predictions he made look more accurate these days.
Thanks just ordered one of his books.
Only learnt of this guy's existence today and I'm a fairly well-educated 51 year old!
A quote of Mansur Hoda comes to mind:
“ Development does not only mean the increased production of goods but also the development of people, the stimulation of their innate abilities, giving them a feeling of self-determination, self-respect, self-reliance and enthusiasm. Unless people are involved in the process of development and are given a chance to do something worthwhile, to grasp new ideas, acquire new skills and develop a sense of their own worth, no society can move out of misery and poverty”.
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Thank you for sharing this passage.
@@tommcfadden5232 Thank you for appreciating it 🙏🙂
I would love to see the man who comments in these videos. He has such a calm and wonderful voice.
This one out of the series is particularly interesting. Thank you!
I love these videos. But it would almost certainly be better, if we were provided a script, so we could sit down ourselves, revise what we have watched, and think about them deeply.
Thank you so much for this initiative. :) I can't say enough on how much it's helped me with college courses.
Émile Durkheim était en avance sur son temps et ses pensées sont toujours d'actualité
Because capitalism still exist
Hello from the Durkheim's country, love your videos
ED showed more than that you can make several videos about it, think about that !
i send you a lot of love bye
Any plans to do videos on Literature? - I love Alain's book on Proust!
YESSSS
interesting videos ... i thank you for this amazing work, but what do you think about making videos concerning the pioneers of Chicago school?? like E.Park, Louis Wirth, Burgess...and their theories about urban ethnology and sociology .... i guess it would be really educational don't you think so?
+The School of Life Can you guys create some videos regarding Economics? I realized that you made some videos regarding Economists, including Karl Marx and Adam Smith, but I just think it would be an interesting series. Maybe do some videos regarding Hayek or Friedman, or even Keynes. Either way keep up with the good work I love your vids.
0:24 I have to point out that this is not the photo of Durkheim. This is the photo of French novelist Émile Zola.