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Durkheim, Emile
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Durkheim, Emile (1858–1917). Only rivalled by Max
Weber as the father of social science. He founded the Année Sociologique, a group which made major contributions to the study of religion, ‘représentations collectives’ (
collective representations), modes of thought, and forms of classification. Jewish by birth, Durkheim adopted a positivistic attitude towards religion. His classic
The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912; tr. 1915) utilized Australian aboriginal material to attempt to show that religious life originates as a response to experiences of society. It is now generally taken for granted that comprehensive understanding of religions involves a social perspective. See also
SACRED AND PROFANE (including his definition of religion).
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Emile Durkheim on the Family.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Comparative Family Studies; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; LAMANNA, Mary Ann, EMILE DURKHEIM ON THE FAMILY. Thousand Oaks...present a comprehensive review of Emile Durkheim's work on the family. Going beyond Emile Durkheim's infamous remarks on women...
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Marcel Fournier, Emile Durkheim.(Emile Durkheim: 1858-1917)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology; 9/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; Marcel Fournier, Emile Durkheim. Paris : Editions Fayard, Collection...Telle nous semble la portee de l'Emile Durkheim de Fournier, qui se donne le...d'un ouvrage semblable a l'Emile Durkheim de Lukes, et integrer en un tableau...
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Durkheim and criminology: reconstructing the legacy. (Emile Durkheim)
Magazine article from: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology; 12/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...The article offers an overview of Emile Durkheim's substantial and surprisingly...Around 100 years ago Durkheim was at the height of his powers...and Suicide lay behind him (Durkheim, 1964, 1966a, 1966b). He had...
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Mustafa Emirbayer, ed. Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Mustafa Emirbayer, ed. Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity. Malden...composed of selections from the work of Durkheim, organized thematically and paired...respond to or throw new light on Durkheim's contribution to the development...
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A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism: Emile Durkheim and Contemporary Social Theory.
Magazine article from: American Political Science Review; 9/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...have to offer. Cladis proposes Emile Durkheim as the exemplar of this more encompassing...It is worthwhile to learn that Durkheim belongs in this company of communitarian...was precisely in order to display Durkheim's liberalism that Steven Lukes...
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Three Faces of God: Society, Religion, and the Categories of Totality in the Philosophy of Emile Durkheim.(Review)
Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...of Totality in the Philosophy of Emile Durkheim, by DONALD A. NIELSEN. Albany...intentions. Nielsen wishes to show that Durkheim's lifelong project was significantly...monistic sociological metaphysic. Durkheim and his school, according to Nielsen...
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Durkheim and Veblen on the social nature of individualism. (Notes and Communications).(Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) compared with Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929))
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 12/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...the lives and work of Frenchman Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) and American Thorstein...However, a caveat is necessary. Durkheim's views on the social induction...others. This makes articulation of Durkheim's theoretical position relevant...
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Emile Durkheim: sociologist and moralist.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of Sociology; 3/22/1996; 700+ words
; ...is no consensus about the meaning of Durkheim's social theory. To begin with, the...is disagreement about every facet of Durkheim's work. Whether this work articulates...it changed or remained consistent over Durkheim's lifetime -- all these and more issues...
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Durkheim and organizational analysis: two legacies. (Emile Durkheim, philosopher)
Magazine article from: Organization Studies; 9/22/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...founding father of social sciences, Durkheim, although, like Weber, emphasizing...instance, Mayo borrowed heavily from Durkheim in his work on the functioning of small...Roethlisberger and Dickson 1939, 'eagerly read' Durkheim) and the work of the human relations...
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Perspectives on Berber politics: On Gellner and Masqueray, or Durkheim's mistake.(Ernest Gellner)(Emile Masqueray)(Emile Durkheim)(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; Introduction The fact that the scientific pretensions of political science have driven many of its practitioners to ape their counterparts in more exact disciplines, notably economics and econometrics - with the result that many studies in political science today are abstruse exercises in logic or
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Durkheim, Emile
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Durkheim, Emile (1858–1917) French sociologist...by the positivism of Auguste Comte , Durkheim used the methods of natural science to...Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Durkheim argued that religion and labour were...
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Émile Durkheim
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
É mile Durkheim The French philosopher and sociologist É mile Durkheim (1858-1917) was one of the founders of 20th-century sociology. Emile Durkheim was born at É pinal, Lorraine, on...
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Marcel Mauss
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the sociologist É mile Durkheim. Although Mauss did not receive...Introduction" in É mile Durkheim and Marcel Mauss, Primitive Classification...1945); Kurt H. Wolff, ed., Emile Durkheim, 1858-1917 (1960); and Marvin...
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religion, sociology of
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology
...research into religious phenomena by Emile Durkheim , Georg Simmel , William Robertson...functions of religion. Émile Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of the...elementary forms’ Durkheim meant the basic structures of religious...
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Suicide/Suicidal Behavior
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
...suicide has been French sociologist Emile Durkheim's 1897 work Le suicide . Analyzing French statistics on suicide, Durkheim concluded that suicide is primarily...the most vulnerable to suicide. Durkheim also categorized suicide into four...
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