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Durkheim
[ durk-hahym; French dyr-kem ]
noun
- É·mile [ey-, meel], 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.
Durkheim
/ dyrkɛm; ˈdɜːkhaɪm /
noun
- DurkheimÉmile18581917MFrenchSOCIAL SCIENCE: sociologist Émile (emil). 1858–1917, French sociologist, whose pioneering works include De la Division du travail social (1893)
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Translated and adapted from Émile Durkheim, La division du travail social, pp. 24-209.
If these arguments are held to prove the inadequacy of Dr. Durkheim's hypothesis, we may bring forward our own.
The totem, says Dr. Durkheim, in explanation of exogamy, is a "god" who is in each member of his group while they are in him.
The supposed process seems to me doubly impossible by Dr. Durkheim's premises.
Not in a moment could they have drawn, on Dr. Durkheim's lines, the inference that none must marry within the sacred totem blood.
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