One of the most intriguing aspects of Durkheim's work was precisely his failure to say anything in detail about the nature of the sacred in today's society. The Elementary Forms offered a conceptual ...

Victorian anthropologist Edward Tylor argued that dreams of dead relatives convinced early humans they had souls. Émile Durkheim rejected this, insisting dreams are too fleeting and shaped by culture ...

In English, translated from the French. "Subsequent writings of Emile Durkheim on sociology and its method"--p. [121]-189. Translation of: Les règles de la méthode sociologique. siris_sil_1039155 ...

Galen Watts receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Queen's University, ...

Vol. 38, No. 1, Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Émile Durkheim's "The Rules of Sociological Method" (Spring, 1995), pp. 27-40 (14 pages) Published By: Sage Publications, Inc. This article ...

This work of Durkheim originally appeared as La prohibition de l'inceste et ses origines in L'Année sociologique, v. 1, 1897.

Pew finds that Christians actually don’t lose their faith in college. To the fathers of secularization theory, it was obvious. Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx theorized that the more advanced ...