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On Suicide by Durkheim Emile
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The landmark investigation into suicide and society--now in a new translation mile Durkheim, one of the fathers of modern sociology, was the first to suggest that suicide might be as much a response to society as an act of individual despair. When he looked at social, religious, or racial groups tha ...Show more
Suicide: A Study in Sociology by Emile Durkheim
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Routledge Classics
There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we dohave a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anything can explain how we as individuals relate to society, t ...Show more
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life by Emile Durkheim
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'If religion generated everything that is essential in society, this is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.' In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim set himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigated what he consid ...Show more
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