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

According to Durkheim, collective effervescence — the feeling of losing oneself to a shared identity through ritual action — creates access to phenomena considered sacred, which are reflections of society itself.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

In his 1897 classic of sociology, "Suicide," Émile Durkheim argued that suicide was not a purely individual phenomenon, but was influenced by collective forces.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2022

The third element of consensus which makes for unified behavior of the members of the group has been analyzed by Durkheim under the term "collective representations."

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park