Durkheim

American  

[durk-hahym, dyr-kem] / ˈdɜrk haɪm, dürˈkɛm /

noun

1. Émile 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.

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Durkheim British  

/ ˈdɜːkhaɪm, dyrkɛm /

noun

1. Émile (emil). 1858–1917, French sociologist, whose pioneering works include De la Division du travail social (1893)

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Example Sentences

Kenah says his was having to read 200 pages of sociologist Emile Durkheim before setting foot in his first class.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026

Durkheim suggested that most of us spend the majority of our lives doing menial tasks — hunting and gathering or typing and chattering.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2023

As sociologist Émile Durkheim once put it, ritual "is not identified with the whole religious or magical system, but is, so to speak, the executive arm of that system."

From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023

This term was coined a century ago to describe a root cause of “the elementary forms of the religious life,” in a book of that name by French sociologist Emile Durkheim.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Durkheim proceeds to argue that the origin of the occult powers attributed to the feminine organism is to be found in primitive ideas concerning blood.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Ellis, Havelock