Durkheim
Americannoun
noun
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“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
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
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
Durkheim is sometimes referred to, in comparison with other contemporary sociologists, as a realist.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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