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EMILE DURKHIEM - ( Religion/totemism)

   Emile Durkheim is the most iconic French sociologist as his keen interest in the study of society and religion  so he develop the '' concept of totemism '' in his book '' Elementary forms of the religious life '' in 1912 which analyze religion as a social phenomena .  Few points to understand concept of totemism (1) totemic societies studies the concept in central Australia in ( Arunta tribes ) (2) In the feeling of happiness and the feeling of joy is also know as ' state of exaltation ' or ' Collective efferescence '. Meaning its a state of happiness where a group of  persons  can  feel so much  positivity and lot of joy connected with a any of the scared thing like plant , tree , river etc. (3) Durkheim borrowed the idea of crowed behavior is developed by GUSTANE LEBON / GABRIEL TARDE . (4) How the process of migration is been derived in a simple manner firstly [ Temporary gathering occur] [ interaction escalated ] [ Crowd stimulatio...