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

Translated and adapted from Émile Durkheim, La division du travail social, pp. 24-209.

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If these arguments are held to prove the inadequacy of Dr. Durkheim's hypothesis, we may bring forward our own.

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The totem, says Dr. Durkheim, in explanation of exogamy, is a "god" who is in each member of his group while they are in him.

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The supposed process seems to me doubly impossible by Dr. Durkheim's premises.

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Not in a moment could they have drawn, on Dr. Durkheim's lines, the inference that none must marry within the sacred totem blood.

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