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 Do all religious forms, institutions or belief systems reflect the same social values?
+## Durkheim and Weber, two daimons on my shoulders ##
+I like to think of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber as two little [[http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html|daimon]]s who sit on each of my shoulders, each whispering different things in
+my ears.
+* Durkheim looks at society as a totality.
+* Weber looks at society as something that develops out individual
+patterns of action.
+* Durkheim says that patterns of action are social facts. That is why
+they matter.
+* Weber says that social patterns and institutions form because social actions have a meaning to the
+actor and to the society at large. Social institutions and structures are particualr ways of embodying all the things that people in society value.