The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Name: The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Author: Émile Durkheim

by Émile Durkheim

Foundation of sociology studying collective consciousness and religious ritual

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Émile Durkheim

French sociologist who founded sociology as a scientific discipline. Suicide demonstrated that even the most individual act has social causes; The Elementary Forms of Religious Life analyzed religion as a social phenomenon. His concepts of anomie and collective consciousness remain central to sociological thought.

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