This question becomes redundant, though, if we think that the sacred is an inherent part of human life. This was certainly Durkheim's view. In The Elementary Forms, he argued that people experienced a ...

A few days back my Brainstorm colleague Laurie Essig drew an analogy between contemporary sociologist Mark Regnerus and Holy Trinity sociologist Émile Durkheim (as in the triune god of early social ...

As the few surviving photographs we have of him suggest, Emile Durkheim was by all accounts a somewhat stern man. His moral seriousness was such that his nephew, Marcel Mauss, was reportedly struck by ...

Why Thinkers Matter: Émile Durkheim.

A few years ago I was planning a book on market capitalism—one that would demonstrate its inestimable virtues. But in a moment of candour it occurred to me that I had not exposed myself sufficiently ...

In his book Suicide, French sociologist Emile Durkheim discussed the nature and the consequences of economic crisis. Steven Lukes, Professor of Sociology at New York University, debates Durkheim’s ...