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Emile Durkheim is regarded as one of the proverbial founding fathers of sociological research and theory. The two main works of his that can easily be considered his most brilliant and affecting works are The Rules of Sociological Method and The Division of Labor in Society. This particular report focuses on a particular article that was written for and appeared in a scholarly journal article in 2011. The article spoke of Durkheim's theories and how the theory and practice of society very much confirm and verify the assertions that Durkheim made. Specifically, the article focuses on the Moral Education treatise offered by Durkheim. While sociological theory and insight is not an exact science is far from definitive even in the modern day, it is clear to anyone who would pay attention why Durkheim is held in the same fairly high to very high regard as other sociological theories such as Karl Marx and Max Weber.
Analysis A microcosm of that would be the idea that children are deemed to be less informed and educated by virtue of their age. The author of this report holds that this is entirely not true, especially in the respect of "street smarts" and basic intelligence. Even if a child is not book-smart, they typically know when they are being manipulated or lied to and they are often very savvy and fairly knowledgeable about the world around them than parents or other adults would seem to think. To treat a child as ambivalent or ignorant just because they are young and for little to no other reason would be a mistake. Durkheim made it a point to recognize that in addition to the fact that any observable behavior in adults almost certainly has at least some root in what happened to those adults when they were children. There is a chance that the person's childhood is not extensively relevant, but it at least plays some part of explaining a person's actions and reactions to events experienced later in life (Prus, 2011).
One of the major cornerstones of Durkheim's moral stances and theories that is focused on in this article, as authored by Robert Prus, is that education is something that is and should be a socially engaged process. The article notes that while many people focus on Durkheim's opinions relative to broader society and community, Prus notes that much fewer people focus specifically on the sociological in theories in
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Durkheim follows that string a bit further as he explains and speaks of the correlation between education and community life and how the two should absolutely be inextricably linked. If there is a disagreement between the two, then there will obviously be some discord and very mixed results because the educational foundations of a child will be at odds with what surrounds them. There are times, perhaps, where that is a good thing…
References
Prus, R. (2011). Examining Community Life 'in the Making': Emile Durkheim's Moral
Education. American Sociologist, 42(1), 56-111. doi:10.1007/s12108-010-9119-5
2009). This is largely due to the eating patterns established in poverty; lack of food during childhood has the tendency to increase over-eating when food is available, and instills a strong compulsion to avoid food insecurities in adulthood, leading to unhealthy eating habits (Olson et al. 2007). Such habits obviously cause health deterioration, which limits productivity and creates bigger expenses, and so assists in the intergenerational perpetuation of poverty and
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