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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Durkheim

With roots dating to 19th century European theorists like Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, sociology coalesced professionally in America during the Progressive Era.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 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

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

As Émile Durkheim points out in "The Division of Labor in Society," it severs the social bonds that give us meaning.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2022

From a contemplation of all this diversity Professor Durkheim emerges, demanding a "synthetic science," "certain synthetic conceptions"—and Professor Karl Pearson endorses the demand—to fuse all these various activities into something that will live and grow.

From An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells