Emile Durkheim

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David Émile Durkheim (French pronunciation: [emil dyʁkɛm]) (April 15, 1858 – November 15, 1917) was a French positivist sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline and, withKarl Marx and Max Weber, is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science.^[1]

Durkheim developed the sociological positivism of Auguste Comte in greater detail by founding a rigorous methodology combining sociological theory with empirical social research.^[2] Also influential in anthropology, Durkheim was a structural functionalist and an early proponent ofsolidarism.^[3][4] During his lifetime, Durkheim gave many lectures, and published numerous sociological studies on subjects such as education, crime, religion, suicide, and many other aspects of society.

Key points
- father of sociology, social science, Ecole Normale Supérieure, French, Jewish, (German name)
- sociology became part of the French academic curriculum 
- structural functionalist, positivist, Republican
- scientific approach to all social phenomenon
- his ideas became part of the French academic curriculum (his ideas shaped the minds of students, hence to public)
- capitalism and modernity
- division of labour
- religion, suicide
- "anomie"- breakdown of the influence of social norms on individuals in society, people are no longer expected to live by a set of sociological rules and don't know what to expect of each other.