LOL! what a load of psycho babble!
In what way Glander? Durkheim was a sociologist so shouldn't that be "socio babble"? Perhaps my phrasing wasn't the most helpful so can I attempt to explain it with fewer techincal words:
Durkheim tried to understand why humans so readily assimilated religious beliefs into thier thinking at a very young age. Among his conclusions, he asserted that, from the infant's perspective, adults literally do everything for them, supporting and protecting them, keeping them alive and healthy etc. Children are at the mercy of their parents in the first instance and any other adults who also provide care.
He drew a parallel between the infant's utter dependence on its parents and, in turn, the parents utter dependence on larger society in which they exhibit the same kind of belief that there is 'something' greater than them. In all stages of human society, beliefs in supernatural forces that either protect or endanger them are evident. The parallel between the child's dependence and the adult's dependence on something larger and bigger has since been noted by many, many others - but Durkheim, a sociologist, was one of the first to write about it in terms of human development rather than from a religious perspective (which some might term "religio-babble" ).
However, I accept that some people have a low tolerance for sociological explanations of human behaviour. If the sociological explanation is not for you, so be it. This is a forum for opinions not dogma.
