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How Was Sociology Invented?

Q&A / A conversation with Kwame Anthony Appiah about the religious origins of social theory and his recent book Captive Gods. Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins The philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah’s latest ...
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Irony of ironies: bludgeoning higher education on behalf of Jews to erase Jews

Today is a big day for Jewish pride. It is Emile Durkheim’s birthday. Émile Durkheim was a son of a son of a rabbi. This legacy traced back eight generations and he himself was in a yeshiva studying ...
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Is the ‘malady of infinite aspiration’ a permanent condition of the modern age?

When he was appointed the first ever lecturer in sociology at the University of Bordeaux in 1887, Emile Durkheim was in no doubt that new fashions were often quickly embraced by the poorer and more ...
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Incest; the nature and origin of the taboo, by Emile Durkheim. Translated, with an introd., by Edward Sagarin. Together with The origins and the development of the incest taboo ...

This work of Durkheim originally appeared as La prohibition de l'inceste et ses origines in L'Année sociologique, v. 1, 1897.
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Introduction to a Bibliographical Focus on Emile Durkheim

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JSSR), the quarterly publication of the Society for the Scientific Study of ...
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The division of labor in society / by Emile Durkheim ; translated by George Simpson

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