1. How does the scientific study of morality differ from the approach taken by philosophers who write about ethics?
2. Do membership in society and morality have the same goal?
3. What are the characteristics of moral phenomena? Do they differ from the characteristics of social facts? If so, what can we conclude?
4. What are the causes of the development of the division of labor? Do they constitute a theory of social change?
5. Durkheim's criticism of socialism is applicable to his own theories. Do you agree or disagree? Why?
6. Discuss the two kinds of individualism Durkheim compares and evaluates. Are they relevant still to understand social patterns in contemporary societies?