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The Sociology of Emile Durkheim
Born in a small town in France in 1858, the son of a rabbi, Emile Durk heim has become one of the dominating influences on contemporary soci ology and other areas of social science. As the originator of anomie, the classic term of alienation, Durkheim continues to speak widely and mean ingfully to our time. He identified a sense of moral crisis in the West and was concerned about modern man's loss of the stistaining ties of community, authority, and dogma. Throughout his life he remained fascinated by the role of religion and the nature of religious experience. Among his very greatest achievements, according to Mr. Nisbet, is his demonstration of how social phenomena can be studied objectively and scientifically. Durkheim's rigorous objectivism, his emphasis on social structure, can be even more greatly appreciated today with what Mr. Nisbet calls the liberation of American sociology from its recent and short-lived plunge into subjectivism.
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