In the same way that Sigmund Freud created a way of making sense of the dynamics and passions of the human psyche, the pioneering French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, created a language for ...

One of the most intriguing aspects of Durkheim's work was precisely his failure to say anything in detail about the nature of the sacred in today's society. The Elementary Forms offered a conceptual ...

BIOGRAPHY:A remarkable study of Émile Durkheim is a fitting tribute to the influential thinker who dedicated himself to sociology A sociological lens can be trained on just about any social process, ...

This work of Durkheim originally appeared as La prohibition de l'inceste et ses origines in L'Année sociologique, v. 1, 1897.

In general, death is a social taboo in post-industrial, consumerist society. Nobody is supposed to talk about it in public. It is anathema – though, in comparison, pornography is not. This evasion is ...

Today is a big day for Jewish pride. It is Emile Durkheim’s birthday. Émile Durkheim was a son of a son of a rabbi. This legacy traced back eight generations and he himself was in a yeshiva studying ...

Pew finds that Christians actually don’t lose their faith in college. To the fathers of secularization theory, it was obvious. Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Karl Marx theorized that the more advanced ...

In 1897, French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, theorized that a breakdown in shared values that integrate a person into the larger society creates alienation as there is no social glue to bond the ...

Animism and magic: E.B. Tylor and J.G. Frazier -- Religion and personality: Sigmund Freud -- Society as sacred: Emile Durkheim -- Religion as alienation: Karl Marx -- Reality of the sacred: Mircea ...