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 ...

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 ...

When he was appointed the first ever lecturer in sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1887, Emile Durkheim was in no doubt that new fashions were often quickly embraced by the poorer and more ...

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

It is not true that political scientists have no sense of humor. They even have a joke: “Political science is not about politics and it’s not a science.” Social science has become a joke, though ...