Title: Major Principles of Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel

Contents

1. Introduction

2. A discussion of major principles of Emile Durkheim and how they have influenced sociological views. The principles include social facts, anomie, division of labor and solidarity, cult of individual, basic forms of religious life, his viewpoints on suicide, and moral education and social reform

3. A discussion of major principles of Georg Simmel. The principles include formal sociology; his philosophy of money; his view about fashion; his assumptions on individual, size of group, and society; sociability principle; dialectical thinking; objective culture, and principle of secrecy.

4. Conclusion

Word count: 4,281 (14.27 pages)