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Émile Durkheim

1858 - 1917

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David Émile Durkheim (; French: [emil dyʁkɛm] or [dyʁkajm]; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies can maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which traditional social and religious ties are much less universal, and in which new social institutions have come into being. Durkheim's conception of the scientific study of society laid the groundwork for modern sociology, and he used such scientific tools as statistics, surveys, and historical observation in his analysis of suicides in Roman Catholic and Protestant groups. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Émile Durkheim is the 2nd most popular sociologist, the 38th most popular biography from France (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular French Sociologist.

Émile Durkheim is most famous for his theory of the division of labor, which is the idea that as a society becomes more complex, its people specialize in certain tasks.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Émile Durkheim ranks 2 out of 79. Before him are Max Weber. After him are Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor W. Adorno, Anthony Giddens, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, Erving Goffman, Talcott Parsons, Marcel Mauss, Norbert Elias, and Ulrich Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Émile Durkheim ranks 3. Before him are Giacomo Puccini, and Max Planck. After him are Selma Lagerlöf, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf Diesel, Gustaf V of Sweden, Georg Simmel, Christiaan Eijkman, Jagadish Chandra Bose, and Omar Mukhtar. Among people deceased in 1917, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, Mata Hari, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Liliʻuokalani, Eduard Buchner, Adolf von Baeyer, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Durkheim ranks 38 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Coco Chanel (1883), John Calvin (1509), Louis XIII of France (1601), and Paul Gauguin (1848). After him are Napoleon III (1808), Louis XVIII of France (1755), Claudius (-10), Simone de Beauvoir (1908), Charles Baudelaire (1821), and Marcel Proust (1871).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In France

Among sociologists born in France, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Marcel Mauss (1872), Gabriel Tarde (1843), Alain Touraine (1925), Marcel Granet (1884), Henri Hubert (1872), and Loïc Wacquant (1960).

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