Emile Durkheim
Emile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheimwas a French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher. He formally established the academic discipline and—with Karl Marx and Max Weber—is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology...
ProfessionTeacher
Date of Birth15 April 1858
cheerful morality found
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
sacred definitions break
By definition, sacred beings are separated beings. That which characterizes them is that there is a break of continuity between them and the profane beings.
behaviour actors may
An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.