Originally published in 1897, this is Durkheim’s pioneering attempt to offer a sociological explanation for a phenomenon regarded until then as exclusively psychological and individualistic.

An appreciation of Durkheim. Dealing with classic Durkheimian subjects such as religion, social solidarity and suicide, it focuses on Durkheim’s inquiry into political theory, comparative ethnology, social reconstruction, questions of…

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

For fifteen years, Emile Durkheim worked on the journal L'Annee Sociologique-selecting, editing, writing, and shaping the goals and methods of the French School of sociology. Now, Durkheim’s own contributions to…

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be…

French sociologist Emile Durkheim set out to explore religion as a social phenomenon, and in 1912 published his results in ‘Elementary Forms of Religious Life.’ The relationship between humans and…

The most neglected of Durkheim’s key works, Professional Ethics and Civic Morals makes a seminal contribution our understanding of the state.

Les Regles de la methode sociologique, publie en 1895 par Emile Durkheim dans la Revue philosophique, constitue l'ouvrage ou le projet sociologique de l'auteur, considere comme le pere de la…