The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life Av Emile Durkheim

In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim investigated the enduring source of human social identity and fellowship by studying the simplest form of documented religion, totemism among the Aborigines of Australia. His book about the origin and...

Émile Durkheim (1858–1917) var samholdets og solidaritetens tenker. Han er grunnleggeren av den moderne sosiologien – vitenskapen som undersøker forholdet mellom kollektivet og individet. Durkheim begrunnet sosiologien i rasjonalisme...

Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work...

Emile Durkheim is regarded as a founding father of sociology, and is studied in all basic sociology courses. This handy textbook is a key collection of translations from Durkheim''s major works.