Durkheim: The collective conscience
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 21-09-14 09:49
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- Durkheim: The collective conscience
- Sacred symbols represent society's collective conscience.
- Definition: The shared norms, values and beliefs that make cooperation between individuals possible. (Without these, society would disintegrate.)
- Regular, shared rituals reinforce the collective conscience and maintain social integration.
- Rituals also remind the individual of the power of society.
- Without society they are nothing and they owe it everything.
- Another function that religion performs for the individual is that by making us feel like something greater than ourselves, it strengthens us to face life's problems.
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