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Durkheim

American  
[durk-hahym, dyr-kem] / ˈdɜrk haɪm, dürˈkɛm /

noun

  1. Émile 1858–1917, French sociologist and philosopher.


Durkheim British  
/ ˈdɜːkhaɪm, dyrkɛm /

noun

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

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Kenah says his was having to read 200 pages of sociologist Emile Durkheim before setting foot in his first class.

From The Wall Street Journal

Durkheim argued that the symbolic content of religion conveys the deep truth about society.

From The Wall Street Journal

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