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SOCIOLOGY – Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim is the philosopher who can best help us to understand why capitalism makes us richer and yet frequently more miserable. He was born in 1858 in the little french town of Épinale near the German border. Before he was forty, Durkheim was appointed to a powerful and prestigious position: as a professor at the Sorbonne in Paris. Durkheim...

August 5, 2019

Durkheim’s Mechanical and Organic Solidarity: what holds society together?

emile durkheim is one of the three big names in modern social theory next to Karl Marx and Max Weber Durkheim’s called the father of sociology the formal study of society so he focused on social rather than individual explanations for things when looking at racism for example he wouldn’t look at individual psychology and circumstances he’d look at stuff...

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SOCIOLOGY – Émile Durkheim

Durkheim’s Mechanical and Organic Solidarity: what holds society together?