Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist that (With Karl Marx and Max Weber) is called the father of the sociology and one of the three classics in this area of the knowledge. He was born in a little town in the north of France in 1858 and he was part of a Jewish family.When Émile grew up he was discovered that the way of his father (the father of Durkheim was a “Rabbi”) wasn’t his way of live and he went to study to Paris, Where he read a lot of the positivist social scientists like Herbert Spencer and Auguste Comte. At the end of the XIX century and in the beginning of the XX, Durkheim wrote all of his most important books. In 1892 he wrote “The Division of labour in society”, in 1895 “The rules of the sociologic method” and in 1912 “The elementary forms of religious life”, books that explain a theory of the “social fact” who, for Durkheim is a fact that you can study scientific and objectively.This is not a guy that I admire in sociology at all, in fact, I don’t think that this guy was right with all of his objectivism and his way to find the truth, but in my month of university life, is the only one that I have seen in classes.
That's the truth
The objective truth...
A great contribution was Durkheim for sociology and social sciences in general but really hard science can be done within the social? hehehe ... that discunsion that.
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ReplyDeleteI wrote abou Durkheim too...I think that he is interesting but in this month that we are in the University we haven't read so much about another authors so Durkheim is good.
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You steel my sociologist!xD I like Durkheim glasses :)and he is very easy to read so, in our class month, I like him.
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Durkheim is very important for the Sociology. Lamentably in the university, the teachers do not teach very well:(
ReplyDeleteDurkheim is very important for the sociology. Lamentably, in the University, the teachers do not teach very well:(
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ReplyDeleteI think that Durkheim's ideas were very interesting, because he studied in depth the social behavior and made a new big theory about that. I hope too that we can study in depth to the other classical authors.
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