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

Durkheim argued that the symbolic content of religion conveys the deep truth about society.

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

Graeber and Wengrow, by contrast, write in the grand tradition of social theory descended from Weber, Durkheim and Levi-Strauss.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2021

Durkheim, Émile, 18, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 58, 164, 193-96, 217, 221, 222, 267, 268, 343, 671, 714-18, 723, 729, 854, 857, 894.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra