Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher. He formally established the academic discipline and, with Karl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity; an era in which traditional social and religious ties are no longer assumed, and in which new social institutions have come into being. His first major sociological work was The Division of Labour in Society (1893).

Literature

((in French unless noted))

Books

• The Division of Labour in Society, 1893
• Les Règles de la méthode sociologique, 1895
  • The Rules of Sociological Method, trans. W.D. Hall, New York: The Free Press, 1982 (in English)
  • Sociologia: Regulile metodei sociologice, trans. C. Sudeţeanu, Bucureşti: Cultura Naţională, 1924 (in Romanian).
  • Regulile metodei sociologice, trans. Dan Lungu, Iaşi: Polirom, 2002 (in Romanian).
• On the Normality of Crime, 1895
• Le Suicide, Paris: Félix Alcan Editeur, 1897.
  • Suicide, 1897
• The Prohibition of Incest and its Origins, 1897 (published in "L'Année Sociologique", vol. 1, pp. 1–70)
• La sociologia e il suo dominio scientifico, 1900 (in Italian)
  • Sociology and its Scientific Domain, 1900
• with Marcel Mauss, Primitive Classification, 1903
• Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse. Le système totémique en Australie, Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, 1912; 3rd edition, 1937 (in French) [1] & [2]
  • The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, trans. Karen E. Fields, New York: The Free Press, 1995. (in English)
  • Formele elementare ale vieţii religioase, trans. Magda Jeanrenaud & Silviu Lupescu, Iaşi: Editura Porlirom, 1995. (in Romanian)
• with Ernest Denis, Who Wanted War?, 1914

Bibliography

• Bibliographie sélective, February 2008.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Durkheim