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

This new sobriety probably takes some of the fizz out of what the sociologist Emile Durkheim called the “collective effervescence” that revelers feel while partying together in large groups.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 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

This term was coined a century ago to describe a root cause of “the elementary forms of the religious life,” in a book of that name by French sociologist Emile Durkheim.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 6, 2023

The prevalence of such spirit-beings was one reason Emile Durkheim thought — wrongly, in my view — that what he called totemism was the earliest form of religion.

From New York Times ● Aug. 17, 2021

In giving this reference, of course, I do not commit myself to the "mediæval realism" of which Durkheim has been, perhaps justly, accused.

From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Anderson, Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester)