SOCIOLOGIST

Émile Durkheim

1858 - 1917

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David Émile Durkheim (; French: [emil dyʁkɛm] or [dyʁkajm]; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies can maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity, an era in which traditional social and religious ties are much less universal, and in which new social institutions have come into being. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Émile Durkheim has received more than 4,540,979 page views. His biography is available in 99 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 97 in 2019). Émile Durkheim is the 2nd most popular sociologist, the 33rd most popular biography from France (down from 21st in 2019) and the most popular French Sociologist.

Émile Durkheim is most famous for his theory of the division of labor, which is the idea that as a society becomes more complex, its people specialize in certain tasks.

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS

Among sociologists, Émile Durkheim ranks 2 out of 79. Before him are Max Weber. After him are Pierre Bourdieu, Theodor W. Adorno, Robert K. Merton, Georg Simmel, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Norbert Elias, Marcel Mauss, and Ulrich Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1858, Émile Durkheim ranks 2. Before him is Max Planck. After him are Giacomo Puccini, Selma Lagerlöf, Theodore Roosevelt, Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, Gustaf V of Sweden, Rudolf Diesel, Georg Simmel, Omar Mukhtar, Emmeline Pankhurst, and Giuseppe Peano. Among people deceased in 1917, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Octave Mirbeau, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, L. L. Zamenhof, Mata Hari, Eduard Buchner, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Emil von Behring, Adolf von Baeyer, Edward Burnett Tylor, and Emil Theodor Kocher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Émile Durkheim ranks 33 out of 6,770. Before him are Denis Diderot (1713), Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807), Nostradamus (1503), Napoleon III (1808), Édith Piaf (1915), and Paul Gauguin (1848). After him are Alexandre Dumas (1802), Charles Baudelaire (1821), Pierre Curie (1859), Émile Zola (1840), Stendhal (1783), and Gustave Flaubert (1821).

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Among SOCIOLOGISTS In France

Among sociologists born in France, Émile Durkheim ranks 1. After him are Pierre Bourdieu (1930), Marcel Mauss (1872), Gabriel Tarde (1843), Alain Touraine (1925), Marcel Granet (1884), Henri Hubert (1872), and Loïc Wacquant (1960).

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