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Social Sciences and Humanities
France
2023

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
71
Citations
127155
World Ranking
702
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in France Leader Award

Overview

Émile Durkheim was affiliated with Université Paris Cité in France and contributed extensively to the field of social sciences throughout their career. Their research encompassed several subfields, including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, philosophy, general health professions, and pathology and forensic medicine.

Their scholarly output included eight publications in social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. They contributed significantly to topics such as psychoanalysis and psychopathology research, Durkheim and sociology, contemporary sociological theory and practice, sociology and education studies, education, sociology and vocational training, health, medicine and society, and linguistics and discourse analysis.

Durkheim's recent papers were published in a variety of venues. Notable publications included:

  • " Représentations individuelles et représentations collectives " (2020) in NumeRev
  • FROM THE DIVISION OF LABOR IN SOCIETY (2021) in Princeton University Press eBooks
  • Qu'est-ce qu'un fait social? (2020) in NumeRev
  • An Unpublished Manuscript by Durkheim (2020) in Durkheimian Studies
  • Un manuscrit inédit de Durkheim (2020) in Durkheimian Studies

The frequent publication venues for Durkheim's work included:

  • NumeRev
  • Durkheimian Studies
  • Archives de sciences sociales des religions
  • Princeton University Press eBooks
  • REPOCS - Revista Pós Ciências Sociais

Durkheim collaborated with several co-authors throughout their academic career. Frequent collaborators included Marcel Mauss, Matthieu Béra, Max Weber, Geovane Campanher dos Santos, and Fabiano Victor Campos.

Among book publications, Durkheim had works published by NumeRev, including L'avenir de la religion (2020), and by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, including Leçons de sociologie criminelle (2022).

Best Publications

  • Suicide: A Study in Sociology

    Emile Durkheim

  • The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

    Emile Durkheim

  • The division of labor in society

    Emile Durkheim

  • Las reglas del método sociológico

    Emile Durkheim

  • The Rules of Sociological Method

    Emile Durkheim;Steven Lukes

  • De la division du travail social

    Emile Durkheim

  • The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

    Émile Durkheim

  • Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

    Émile Durkheim

  • Las formas elementales de la vida religiosa: el sistema totémico en Australia

    Emile Durkheim

  • Les règles de la méthode sociologique

    Emile Durkheim

  • Da divisão do trabalho social

    Emile Durkheim

  • The Division of Labour in Society

    Emile Durkheim

  • Représentations individuelles et Représentations collectives

    Emile Durkheim

  • Education and Sociology

    Emile Durkheim;Sherwood D. Fox;Talcott Parsons

  • La educación moral

    Emile Durkheim

  • The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

    Mary Douglas;Emile Durkheim;Karen Fields

  • Professional Ethics and Civic Morals

    Emile Durkheim

  • Las formas elementales de la vida religiosa

    Emile Durkheim

  • Leçons de sociologie

    Emile Durkheim;Georges Davy

  • Moral Education: A Study In The Theory And Application Of The Sociology Of Education

    Emile Durkheim

  • Die Regeln der soziologischen Methode

    Émile Durkheim;René König

  • Suicide: A Study in Sociology.@@@The Rules of Sociological Method

    Harry Alpert;Emile Durkheim;John A. Spaulding;George Simpson

  • Rules of Sociological Method

    Emile Durkheim;Sarah A. Solovay;John Henry Mueller

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens London School of Economics and Political Science
Albert Ellis
Albert Ellis Case Western Reserve University
Robert N. Bellah
Robert N. Bellah University of California, Berkeley
Karl Marx
Karl Marx Independent Scientist / Consultant, UK
Talcott Parsons
Talcott Parsons Harvard University
Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel Freie Universität Berlin
Lewis A. Coser
Lewis A. Coser Brandeis University
Didier Fassin
Didier Fassin Institute for Advanced Study
Mary Douglas
Mary Douglas University College London
George Ritzer
George Ritzer University of Maryland, College Park

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