Emile Durkheim..what do u know about him??

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Answer 1

"Sociology can then be defined as the science of institutions, of their genesis and of their functioning." (from The Rules of Sociological Method)


Emile Durkheim is considered to be the father of sociology. He is credited with making sociology a science, and a requirement of the curriculum in France, referred as "Science Sociale".Emile Durkheim published an impressive number of sociological studies on subjects such as religion, suicide, Division of Labor, and all aspects of society.

Durkheim's critic on "De la division du travail social" (The Division of Labor in Society), introduces for the first time the concept of "anomie" where people are no longer expected to abide by a set of sociological rules, and no longer knew what to expect from one another.

Today, students in anthropology and sociology are required to study some of his major works such as "The Rules of Sociological Method." Although his theories are recognized as exhausted in today's world, they are still a reference for any sociologist or student social analysis.

There are many online resources where you can find great information on the man and his life. here are two examples:

Answer 2

Emile Durkheim is considered by many to be the father of sociology. He is credited with making sociology a science, and having made it part of the French academic curriculum as "Science Sociale". During his lifetime, Emile Durkheim gave many lectures, and published an impressive number of sociological studies on subjects such as religion, suicide, and all aspects of society.


Émile Durkheim (15 April, 1858 – 15 November, 1917) was a French sociologist whose contributions were instrumental in the formation of sociology and anthropology. His work, lectures, and editorship of the first journal of sociology helped establish sociology within the academy as an accepted "science sociale" (social science). During his lifetime, Durkheim gave many lectures, and published numerous sociological studies on subjects such as education, crime, religion, suicide, and many other aspects of society.

Durkheim was concerned primarily with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in the modern era, when things such as shared religious and ethnic background could no longer be assumed. In order to study social life in modern societies, Durkheim sought to create one of the first scientific approaches to social phenomena. Along with Herbert Spencer, Durkheim was one of the first people to explain the existence and quality of different parts of a society by reference to what function they served in keeping the society healthy and balanced. functionalism.Durkheim also insisted that society was more than the sum of its parts. Thus unlike his contemporaries Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber, he focused not on what motivates the actions of individual people (methodological individualism), but rather on the study of social facts, a term which he coined to describe phenomena which have an existence in and of themselves and are not bound to the actions of individuals. He argued that social facts had an independent existence greater and more objective than the actions of the individuals that composed society and could only be explained by other social facts rather than, say, by society's adaptation to a particular climate or ecological niche.

Answer 3

Try:
http://www.bartleby.com/65/du/Durkheim.html

and

http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Durkheim/DURKWRK.HTML

Answer 4

One of the three founding fathers of sociology....was he the one who said society is like the human body, when part of society malfunctions, the effects are similar to a sickness in the human body...therefore the whole of society does not function well. He was a functionalist wasn't he?.....I did this many years ago...sorry, that's all I can think of.

Answer 5

Pretty much just that he sort of fathered modern sociology.

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