Durkheim

[ durk-hahym; French dyr-kem ]

noun

1. É·mile [ey-, meel], 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.

Durkheim

/ ˈdɜːkhaɪm; dyrkɛm /

noun

1. DurkheimÉmile18581917MFrenchSOCIAL SCIENCE: sociologist Émile (emil). 1858–1917, French sociologist, whose pioneering works include De la Division du travail social (1893)

Example Sentences

The shared purpose Johnson was hitting on, that joie de vivre that served as the basis for David Émile Durkheim’s theory of religion, was coined by the sociologist in the 20th century.

From Los Angeles Times

We are, in real time, witnessing an entire gender experience a phenomenon French sociologist Émile Durkheim termed "anomie".

From Salon

As sociologist Émile Durkheim once put it, ritual "is not identified with the whole religious or magical system, but is, so to speak, the executive arm of that system."

From Salon

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

As Émile Durkheim points out in "The Division of Labor in Society," it severs the social bonds that give us meaning.

From Salon