In the same way that Sigmund Freud created a way of making sense of the dynamics and passions of the human psyche, the pioneering French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, created a language for ...

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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 ...

BIOGRAPHY:A remarkable study of Émile Durkheim is a fitting tribute to the influential thinker who dedicated himself to sociology A sociological lens can be trained on just about any social process, ...

This study aims at reconstructing some fundamental paths in Durkheim's legal sociology in order to verify whether and to what extent they have contributed to provide any reasonable explanation for ...

Globally, we are currently experiencing tremendous social and political turbulence. At the institutional level, liberal democracy faces the threat of rising authoritarianism and far-right extremism.

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

In general, death is a social taboo in post-industrial, consumerist society. Nobody is supposed to talk about it in public. It is anathema – though, in comparison, pornography is not. This evasion is ...

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 ...