Indeed, it may seem, well, almost religious. A popular starting point is French sociologist Emile Durkheim and his 1912 treatise, “The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.” One of Durkheim’s ...

A popular starting point is French sociologist Emile Durkheim and his 1912 treatise, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. One of Durkheim’s most enduring legacies is how he defined ...

Prominent in this literature have been the ideas of the nineteenth century sociologist, Emile Durkheim, who argued that suicide increased with industrialisation and urbanisation as individuals ...

Today this orderly pattern of three-story buildings is the focus of a community that might have been the model for Emile Durkheim's frightening concept of anomie. There is no social structure in ...