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Émile Durkheim

Émile Durkheim. By: Kelsie Leindecker and Jessica Trampf. Who is he?. Born April 15 th , 1858 in Épinal , France Devout French Jew – Father, Grandfather, and Great Grandfather were all Rabbis. Early education in a Rabbinical school Decided not to follow in family’s footsteps

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Émile Durkheim

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  1. Émile Durkheim By: KelsieLeindecker and Jessica Trampf

  2. Who is he? • Born April 15th, 1858 in Épinal, France • Devout French Jew – Father, Grandfather, and Great Grandfather were all Rabbis. • Early education in a Rabbinical school • Decided not to follow in family’s footsteps • Eventually became an agnostic • However, he used his interest in religion to guide his studies later in life. • In 1887 he married Louise Dreyfus and later had two children, Marie and André.

  3. Further Education • Entered École NomaleSupérieurein 1879 on his third attempt. • Studied under Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. • He was a classicist with a social scientific outlook. • While in school, he read Auguste Comte and Herbert Spencer • Interested him in a scientific approach to society early in his career. • Turned his attention to psychology, philosophy, ethics, and eventually sociology. École NomaleSupérieure

  4. Early Career • From 1882 – 1887 he taught philosophy in French provincial schools. • Left for Germany to study sociology in Marburg, Berlin, and Leipzig. • In Germany he published numerous articles on German social science and philosophy. • Articles gained recognition in France and got a job teaching at the University of Bordeaux in 1887. • Taught the university’s first social science course. • Helped add social science classes to the curriculums of French school systems.

  5. Foundings and Publications • 1892: He published The Division of Labour and Society • Influenced advancing sociological theories with ideas there were influenced by Auguste Comte. • His ideas became driven mostly by politics. • 1895: He published Rules of the Sociological Method • Stated what sociology is and how it ought to be done. • Founded the first European department of sociology at the University of Bordeaux. • Founded the L’AnnéeSociologique, the first French social science journal. • 1897: He published Suicide which was a case study of suicide. • During this case study he became one of the pioneers of using quantitative methods in criminology.

  6. Years of Success and The End • 1902: Achieved his goal of getting a important position in Paris by becoming the chair of education at the Sorbonne. • 1906: Became a Professor of Science Education at Sorbonne and in 1913 became Chair of “Education and Sociology”. • 1912: Published his last major work: The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. • André went to war in World War I and died on the war front in 1915. • Devastated Émile and he collapsed of a stoke in Paris in 1917. • Buried in the Montpamasse Cemetery in Paris.

  7. Sociology Contributions • Known today as “The Father of Sociology” • He looked not at what society is, but how a society is created and what holds it together. • He was one of the first people to explain the different parts of society and how they served in keeping the society healthy and balanced. • This theory later became known as Functionalism or Functional Analysis.

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