Essays on Emile Durkheim

Jonathan Z. Smith argues “religion is imposed from the outside” while the term itself is “created by scholars for their intellectual purposes” (Smith, 269). Two philosophers; Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx’s work can be applied to religion as a functional aspect of human life, describing...

Emile Durkheim, a late-nineteenth-century French sociologist, studied two forms of solidarity: mechanical and organic. Mechanical solidarity, also known as ‘Solidarity through Similarities,’ is present mainly in older cultures and is based on the premise that members of a group are fundamentally alike. Individuals in these...

Within this essay I will be looking at the ways in which Emile Durkheim theorizes the key components of modern society. He argues that modern society is characterized by “cultural pluralism, secularization and individualism” which has led to society moving away from ‘mechanical’ solidarity a...

Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897) by Emile Durkheim is a study that was conducted to see what kind of social forces motivate a person to commit an act such as suicide. In our modern society, we have factors that did not exist when the...

The division of work in the public arena is a book put down, initially in French, by Emile Durkheim in 1893. It was Durkheim’s first incredible distributed work and the one in which he started the idea of anomie, or the foundering of the impact...

Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx and Max Weber are our key theorists who with differing ideologies attempt to take on the causes of social inequality. Understanding concepts of social inequality requires a wide lensed perspective and this can be seen within these three theorists’ concepts. This...