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

“For Durkheim, the content of religion was society; for Simmel, the form of religion was society,” Mr. Appiah writes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

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

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

Dungan, the, 311 Duodez language, 541 Durani, the, 543 Durkheim, E., 430 Dusun, the, 230 sq.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court