Emily Durkheim: A Brief Analysis

Emily Durkheim considered by many to be the “father of sociology” was born in France as the son of a Rabbi, expected to take the same path in life as his father, Durkheim chose to seek a higher education degree. He desired to be “educated at France’s most prestigious university”, “École Normale Supérieure” where it took “three attempts to be accepted”. Once educated Durkheim taught philosophy for many years after studying Comte, Durkheim set out to explain society but not from an individual perspective, Durkheim sought the social perspective. By looking at social norms, facts and reasoning he could better understand what he called “social facts” of society (Leebrick 2015).
The first type of solidarity defined by Durkheim was “mechanical solidarity”

As aviation Ordnanceman, we were tasked with loading and arming all weapons and bombs for our squadron aircraft. We were just one part of an entire system that supported flight operations. As ordnance, we would be around the fifth process prior to flight. As we loaded the bombs in the bomb racks, other members tightened the bomb down, and we had a fuser. His responsibility was fusing the bomb and attaching the arming wires to the bomb racks. After that was completed and inspected, then explosive charges were installed, and the safety pins inserted. After the pilots completed their pre-flight checks and got strapped into the ejection seat, the squadron plane captain would turn our plane over to the handler who would direct the jet across the flight deck to the designated catapult for launch. Once the jet was at the catapult, the jet was turned briefly over to the gunner who would oversee the removal of all safety pins from the weapons. At this point, nobody could be directly in front of the jet in case a rocket fired or any other type of stray voltage event. Finally, the jet was turned over to the shooter and the final checkers. Here the pilot would test all controls and set the jet engine to takeoff power, with the pilot rendering a salute to say ready, the shooter gave a salute back and authorized the launch. In two seconds, the plane goes from zero to one hundred sixty five miles per hour and