Durkheim held society itself is the source of logical and moral categories

Evidence

But Durkheim also believed that social integration depended on normative integration—or, as Pierre Bourdieu has recently put it, that “logical integration is the pre-condition of moral integration.” “Normative” integration depended in turn on the strength or weakness of the norms in society—or what Durkheim called the conscience collective . But the source of the norms and rules was society itself . Thus logical categories had society as their source of origin. It was “society”—the source of the normative—which made the rules “sacred,” and therefore binding, and “society” which men worshipped. This was the central argument of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life . — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 355

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that society is the source men worship connects to Feuerbach’s and Marx’s accounts of religion as projected social essence, and to Hall’s own later essays on ideological interpellation.