Emile Durkheim Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 4 pages of information about the life of Emile Durkheim.

Emile Durkheim Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 4 pages of information about the life of Emile Durkheim.
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The French philosopher and sociologist Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) was one of the founders of twentieth-century sociology. Durkheim was born at Épinal, Lorraine, on April 15, 1858. Following a long family tradition, he began as a young man to prepare himself for the rabbinate. While still in secondary school, however, he discovered his vocation for teaching and left Épinal for Paris to prepare for the École Normale, which he entered in 1879. Although Durkheim found the literary nature of instruction there a great disappointment, he was lastingly inspired by two of his teachers: the classicist Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges and the philosopher Émile Boutroux. From Fustel he learned the importance of religion in the formation of social institutions and discovered that the sacred could be studied rationally and objectively. From Boutroux he learned that atomism, the reduction of phenomena to their smallest constituent parts, was a...

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