Definition of Durkheim

1. Noun. French sociologist and first professor of sociology at the Sorbonne (1858-1917).

Exact synonyms: Emile Durkheim
Generic synonyms: Sociologist

Lexicographical Neighbors of Durkheim

Durban
Durck's nodes
Durer
Duresm
Duret's haemorrhage
Duret's lesion
Durex
Durga
Durham
Durham's tube
Durham rule
Durhams
Durif
During
Durio zibethinus
Durkheim (current term)
Durkheimian
Duroziez' murmur
Duroziez' sign
Durrell
Durres
Durrës
Dusanbe
Duse
Dushanbe
Dusicyon
Dusicyon cancrivorus
Dusseldorf
Dust Bowl

Literary usage of Durkheim

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1903)
"L'ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE, publiée sous la direction de Emile Durkheim, Professeur de ... Durkheim and Mauss on some primitive forms of classification. ..."

2. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"EMILE Durkheim (1858- ) Social Realism Durkheim's social philosophy is founded on Comte's positivism modified somewhat by Espinas' social realism, ..."

3. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"The writings of Professor Durkheim and his disciples are thoroughly pervaded by the teachings of the very school whose method they have so severely ..."

4. The Secret of the Totem by Andrew Lang (1905)
"Durkheim Theories of Dr. Durkheim—Was man originally promiscuous ? ... Uncertainty as to whether Dr. Durkheim believes in the incestuous horde—Theory of ..."

5. Senescence, the last half of life by Granville Stanley Hall (1922)
"... the decomposing body and its resolution into its elements—The Durkheim school and the Mana doctrine— Schleiermacher—The Schiller-James view of the brain ..."

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