Social morals, the sacred and state regulation in Durkheim's sociology

Durkheim analysed the mechanisms and types of institutions that create organic solidarity and prevent it from imploding for lack of moral cement. In conformity with his life-long preoccupation with the origins and role of morals, he laid great emphasis on professional ethics and civic morals' together with the institutions-professional associations ("corporations") and the state-that ought to ensure the maintenance of solidarity and avoid, or at least reduce, anomie. His considerations, explicitly or implicitly, involve the concept of the sacred, its relationship to "political society " and morality, authority, democracy, citizenship and "world patriotism".