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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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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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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Suicide (Durkheim) Suicide: A Study in Sociology (French: Le Suicide: Étude de sociologie) is an 1897 book written by French sociologist Émile Durkheim. It...
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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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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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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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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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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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Collective effervescence (category Émile Durkheim)
effervescence (CE) 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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United States and Europe. Another route undertaken was initiated by Émile Durkheim, studying "social facts", and Vilfredo Pareto, opening metatheoretical...
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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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Mechanical and organic solidarity (category Émile Durkheim)
Émile Durkheim, introduced in his Division of Labour in Society (1893) as part of his theory on the development of societies. According to Durkheim,...
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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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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 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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Protestant populations have the same low rate of suicide. French sociologist Émile Durkheim wrote that the higher rate of Protestant suicide is likely due to the...
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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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Tönnies was drawn into a sharp polemic with Émile Durkheim. In a review of Tönnies's book in 1889, Durkheim interpreted Gemeinschaft as having mechanical...
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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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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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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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Sociology of culture (section Émile Durkheim)
intersection between sociology, as shaped by early theorists like Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, and anthropology where researchers pioneered ethnographic strategies...
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relationship. Systematic sociology of education began with the work of Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) on moral education as a basis for organic solidarity, and...
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