David Émile Durkheim (/ˈdɜːrkhaɪm/; French: [emil dyʁkɛm] or [dyʁkajm]; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established...
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to carry out.” — Émile Durkheim, Letter from Émile Durkheim to Marcel Mauss, June 18, 1894. During their time in Bordeaux, Durkheim was a strict and responsible...
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Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. It was the second methodological study of a social fact in the context...
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Anomie (category Émile Durkheim)
been popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide (1897). Émile Durkheim suggested that Protestants exhibited a greater...
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Theories about religion (section Émile Durkheim)
societies), Sigmund Freud (psychological origin of religious beliefs), Émile Durkheim (social function of religions), and the theory by Stark and Bainbridge...
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Social fact (category Émile Durkheim)
individual and can exercise social control. The French sociologist Émile Durkheim defined the term, and argued that the discipline of sociology should...
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Division of labour (section Émile Durkheim)
the country. In his seminal work, The Division of Labor in Society, Émile Durkheim observes that the division of labour appears in all societies and positively...
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Collective consciousness (category Émile Durkheim)
and "social mind". The term was introduced by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his The Division of Labour in Society in 1893. The French word conscience...
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Émile Durkheim: His Life and Work is a 1972 biography of the sociologist Emile Durkheim written by Steven Lukes. Alpert, Harry (1974). "Review of Emile...
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assistance from governments than its Roman Catholic counterpart. Sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) advocated a form of corporatism termed "solidarism" that...
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L'Année sociologique (category Émile Durkheim)
peer-reviewed academic journal of sociology established in 1898 by Émile Durkheim, who also served as its first editor-in-chief. It was published annually...
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Collective effervescence (category Émile Durkheim)
Collective effervescence is a sociological concept coined by Émile Durkheim. According to Durkheim, a community or society may at times come together and simultaneously...
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Social stigma (section Émile Durkheim)
aware of cultural types at an even younger age." French sociologist Émile Durkheim was the first to explore stigma as a social phenomenon in 1895. He wrote:...
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The Division of Labour in Society (category Works by Émile Durkheim)
travail social) is the doctoral dissertation of the French sociologist Émile Durkheim, published in 1893. It was influential in advancing sociological theories...
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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (category Works by Émile Durkheim)
published by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon. Durkheim attributes the development of...
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Solidarity (section Émile Durkheim)
at the same time. According to Émile Durkheim, the types of social solidarity correlate with types of society. Durkheim introduced the terms mechanical...
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venerated and blessed), or places ("sacred ground"). French sociologist Émile Durkheim considered the dichotomy between the sacred and the profane to be the...
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Profane (religion) (category Émile Durkheim)
The distinction between the sacred and the profane was considered by Émile Durkheim to be central to the social reality of human religion. The term profane...
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Sociology of religion (section Émile Durkheim)
sociology as an academic discipline began with the analysis of religion in Émile Durkheim's 1897 study of suicide rates among Catholic and Protestant populations...
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stable social roles. In this view, Comte was followed by Émile Durkheim. A central concern for Durkheim was the question of how certain societies maintain internal...
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Emil (given name) (redirect from Émile)
animator Emile Diatta, Senegalese politician Émile Dufresne (1861–1942), French inventor and engineer Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), French sociologist Emile Ford...
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"social structure". Later, Karl Marx, Herbert Spencer, Ferdinand Tönnies, Émile Durkheim, and Max Weber would all contribute to structural concepts in sociology...
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Unilineal evolution (section Émile Durkheim)
factors—economical and technological—are decisive in shaping the fate of humanity. Émile Durkheim, another of the 'fathers' of sociology, has developed a similar, dichotomical...
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Positivism (section Durkheim's positivism)
academic discipline of sociology began with the work of Émile Durkheim (1858–1917). While Durkheim rejected much of the details of Comte's philosophy, he...
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The Rules of Sociological Method (category Works by Émile Durkheim)
sociologique) is a book by Émile Durkheim, first published in 1895. It is recognized as being the direct result of Durkheim's own project of establishing...
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United States and Europe. Another route undertaken was initiated by Émile Durkheim, studying "social facts", and Vilfredo Pareto, opening metatheoretical...
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the study of ritualization can be dated back to the 19th century. Émile Durkheim argued that rituals serve as a means of reinforcing social solidarity(otherwise...
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(ed.). The Giddens Reader. MacMillan Press. p. 88. Durkheim, Émile; Halls, Wilfred D.; Durkheim, Émile (2008). The division of labor in society (13. [Repr...
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regarded as a founding father of sociology, alongside Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim, and one of the central figures in the development of the social sciences...
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Herbert Spencer, evolving into modern academic sociology presented by Émile Durkheim as practical and objective social research. Comte's social theories...
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