Emile Durkheim came to prominence at a time when Europe was attempting to redefine itself. It had already experienced a significant and major break with the past (its customs and traditions) during the Protestant Reformation in the 15th and 16th centuries, when Catholic Europe splintered apart. The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment that followed led to a new rationalist spirit in Europe (England and France in particular), which served as the basis of modernism. A counter-swing (and prelude to post-modernism) was the Romantic Era, out of which Durkheim emerged in France -- a beneficiary of the Enlightenment doctrine's emphasis on rationalism and the Romantic Era's emphasis on imagination, and feeling. As French society attempted to redefine itself in the wake of political chaos (the Napoleonic Wars had destabilized the country), Durkheim offered a new approach to the science of society -- sociology -- and he became, so to speak, the father of sociology. The major issues at that time in France were regarding labor, religion, crime, suicide, and social order. Durkheim addressed all of these issues in his writings. He approached them from the perspective of viewing society holistically: his theory was that in order for societies to survive, they must be integral and coherent; with society fracturing into numerous parts and fragments, it was the sociologist's job to analyze the parts and the whole and assess why and how the "collective consciousness" was being formed and where it was going. Durkheim presented...
It is like identifying the zeitgeist of an age/culture in order to explain why events occur at a given time. For instance, the rise of Trump in the U.S. as a political contender can be explained by examining the "collective consciousness."
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