Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

The chapter's second thinker is Emile Durkheim (1858-1917), often regarded as the founder of sociology as a formal academic discipline. The sub-sections that follow set out, first, Durkheim's distinctive vision of what sociology should study and how it should study it, and second, the argument of his first major book, Division of Labour in Society, in whic …