Durkheim reduces all morality to the single need for social integration

Evidence

What appeared to be an expression of radical dissent boiled down, after all, to the shifting of emphasis from the individual to social needs; or, rather, to one supreme need, now assigned priority over all other needs, whether predicated on individuals or on groups: the need of social integration. Any moral system is destined to serve the continuous existence, and the preservation of the identity, of the society which supports its binding force through socialization and punitive sanctions. The persistence of society is attained and sustained by the imposition of constraints upon natural (a-social, pre-social) predilections of society members: by forcing them to act in a way that does not contradict the need to maintain societal unity. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 484

Categorization

• XREF: Durkheim’s conception of morality as constraint upon pre-social predilections is the precise target of later readings’ account of how society produced obedient perpetrators, not merely restrained ones. — connects to: Durkheim’s framework equates morality with social origin, leaving only animal drives as alternative — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 873; Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 486; Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601

Related

• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force (similarity 0.93)
• Durkheim’s framework equates morality with social origin, leaving only animal drives as alternative (similarity 0.90)
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality (similarity 0.84)
• Morality precedes society and society merely manipulates an already-existing moral structure (similarity 0.81)
• Socialization manipulates but never produces moral capacity (similarity 0.81)
• Sociology reduces morality to derivative products of non-moral social institutions (similarity 0.80)
• Moral responsibility can compel insubordination to socially upheld principles (similarity 0.79)
• Binding moral constraints depend on social integration, not abstract principle (similarity 0.79)
• Moral capacity arises socially but not from societal institutions (similarity 0.79)
• Durkheim held society itself is the source of logical and moral categories (similarity 0.79)
• Orthodox sociology assumes social regulation produces morality and restrains savagery (similarity 0.79)
• Social organization displaces autonomous moral drive with instrumental and procedural rationality (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Durkheim’s sociology holds that all morality originates in society’s coercive civilizing force #corroborates (0.85) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 486
• Sociology treats social learning as the unexamined root of all human morality #expands (0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 601