ABSTRACT
Emile Durkheim, Vilfredo Pareto, and Max Weber worked in the same historical context on the theme of science and religion, the sociological theory of religion, the religious interpretation of social movements. The social believer is a religious creature, and the religious believer is a social creature. Durkheim's leading idea for stabilizing and moralizing modern societies was the reconstitution of corporations Pareto did not take the liberty of proposing reforms, but he did predict changes, sometimes for the immediate future and sometimes for the distant future, the chief of which was the accession to power of violent elites who would succeed the foxes of the plutocracy. As for Weber, he predicted first and foremost the gradual expansion of bureaucratic organization. For Durkheim, the social problem is essentially a moral one, and the crisis of contemporary societies is a moral crisis attributable to the structure of society itself.
