What are social facts? When did Durkheim live and where? What are the differences between sociology and philosophy and psychology? What does this phrase mean--"social facts are to be treated as things?" Differentiate between material and nonmaterial social facts. What was Durkheim interested in studying? Differentiate between mechanical and organic solidarity. What caused the transition from mechanical to organic solidarity? What are the differences between restitutive and repressive law and what form of solidarity underlies each? What did Durkheim fear? What is anomie? What causes anomic suicide? How does the division of labor create solidarity but at the same time create the potential for anomie? What is the collective conscience? Differentiate the collective conscience as it appears in mechanical and organic forms of solidarity. What are collective representations? What are social currents? Why did Durkheim decide to study suicide? On what basis did Durkheim reject race as a causal factor associated with suicide? Why are social currents important in the explanation of suicide? What are integration and regulation? What agencies discourage egoistic suicide? Why did the suicide of "Heaven's Gate occur? How can economic constrictions and expansions influence the suicide rate? Which form of suicide occurs when people are oppressed? Is Durkheim's concept of the collective conscience consistent with the concept of a "group mind?" Why did Durkheim study religion in preliterate societies? What causes the emergence of religion? What is the simplest form of religion? What is the collective effervescence? How would occupational associations solve the problem of intense egoism? What is the cult of the individual? What are his assumptions about human nature? Define freedom. What does he mean when he says that we are made up of two parts? What is his fear about contemporary society? What are the important aspects of moral education? Does he believe in rigid conformity? What are the different emotional states that are associated with each form of suicide? How did he leave unexamined the social-psychological assumptions of his theories? What does Durkheim's theories need to make them more complete?