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5 days ago · For Émile Durkheim, crime and punishment were integral features of organized social life. He considered the study of crime and punishment essential to the sociological enterprise precisely because these “social facts” revealed the inner workings of society and the mechanism through which societies change.
5 days ago · This video explores Emile Durkheim's groundbreaking sociological theory of religion, which distinguishes between the sacred and the profane. Discover how Durkheim's insights into religious rituals, totemism, and the collective conscience continue to shape our understanding of the role of religion in society.
1 day ago · With Marx, Max Weber and Émile Durkheim are considered seminal influences in early sociology. The first Marxist school of sociology was known as Austro-Marxism, of which Carl Grünberg and Antonio Labriola were among its most notable members.
2 days ago · The Dreyfus affair ( French: affaire Dreyfus, pronounced [afɛːʁ dʁɛfys]) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906.
3 days ago · Defined in this way, magic is portrayed as the opposite to science. An alternative approach, associated with the sociologist Marcel Mauss (1872–1950) and his uncle Émile Durkheim (1858–1917), employs the term to describe private rites and ceremonies and contrasts it with religion, which it defines as a communal and organised activity. By ...
4 days ago · Although Thapar relied on other disciplines like social anthropology, she heavily borrowed from the conceptual frameworks put forward by Marcel Mauss, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, and others for her interpretation of the economic aspects of pastoral and state societies and the close connections between the state and religion.
3 days ago · Citing the work of sociologist Émile Durkheim, he notes that “pre-contractual” understandings and obligations bind us together. These were “found in a shared moral code, often oriented around the sacred, the shared rituals that enacted those shared beliefs, and the trust that all of these interactions generated.”
