The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism (Ideas in Context)

"When a people has achieved a state of equilibrium and maturity," Durkheim observed in his seventh lecture on moral education, "when the various social functions, at least temporarily, are articulated in an ordered fashion, when the collective sentiments in their essentials are incontestable for the great majority of people, then the preference for rule and order is naturally preponderant."