Abstract: The development of Durkeim’s sociological ideology clearly demonstrated his practical intention to amend social order. Faced with the severe crisis in France and Europe in the middle and late of the 19th centaury, Durkeim anatomized the mechanism and condition for the operation of modern industrial society in a scientific way, and found that the root for social crisis lay in the crack between legal institution and moral which were to conform society. Based on this, Durkeim proposed the principle to amend social order, i.e. occupation criterion and moral construction under state supervision.

Key words: social crisis, scientific way, criterion crack, occupation ethic, practical intention