a.  integration = the incorporation of individuals into the social order
     b.  division of labor = how individuals fit into a functioning society, increase in the division of labor leads to individualism.
     c.  social evolution = a movement from the mechanical solidarity of tribal societies (collective consciousness strong) to the organic solidarity of industrial societies (collective consciousness weak).
     d. social facts = independent of its individual manifestations (laws, morals, beliefs, customs), The Rules of Sociological Method, applied in his research on Suicide. (hypothesis: societies characterized by too much or too little integration or regulation will have high suicide rates)
     e. operationalization of concepts:  linking the concept to concrete, observable behavior
     f.  institution = "beliefs and modes of behavior instituted by the collectivity"
     g.  punishment = function: it maintains social values but is caused by a violation of social values (circular reasoning)
    h.  anomie = (normlessness - a situation where rules or norms are absent), acute (crisis), chronic (constant change)
    i. religion = The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -"beliefs legitimate the existence and importance of specific social structures and social behavior", develop common values,