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Dreyfus's Empire: Emile Durkheim
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Émile Durkheim
This website contains information on the life and work of Durkheim, as well as links to primary sources and summaries of his works.
( http://www.emiledurkheim.com/ )
The Durkheim Pages
This website provides a wealth of material on Durkheim, including a brief biography; summaries of his most important works, including The Division of Labor, Suicide, and The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life; reviews of recent work on Durkheim; the full texts of some of Durkheim's works; and a glossary of his core concepts.
( http://www.relst.uiuc.edu/durkheim/ )
Extracts from Émile Durkheim
This site provides links to extract from the original texts of Durkheim's The Division of Labor; Suicide; The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life; and The Rules of Sociological Method.
( http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/xdur.htm )
Sociology at Hewett: The Durkheim Page
On this site you will find useful summaries of Durkheim's works and key concepts, including his concept of anomie, his understanding of the individual and society, and his sociology of religion and knowledge.
( http://www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk/curric/soc/durkheim/durk.htm )
The Dead Sociologists' Society: Émile Durkheim
The Durkheim section of this website provides background on Durkheim the person, as well as a summary of his ideas and parts of his original texts, including What is a Social Fact? and The Division of Labor.
( http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/INDEX.HTML#durkheim )
The Émile Durkheim Archive
This site provides information on a range of topics from Durkheim's work, including suicide, religion, anomie, the division of labor, solidarity, and crime. It also contains a bibliography of Durkheim's work, a glossary of Durkheimian concepts, and additional weblinks.
( http://durkheim.itgo.com/ )
Sociology Online: Émile Durkheim
This site provides a summary of Durkheim's sociological theory, highlighting his key concepts. It also contains questions to guide discussion of his work.
( http://www.sociologyonline.co.uk/soc_essays/DurkEssay.htm )
Pragmatism and the Question of Truth
This site contains selections from the original text of Durkheim's Pragmatism and Sociology.
( http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/durkheim.htm )
Ed Stephen's Sociology 302 site
This site provides links to overheads that can be used to help explain Durkheimian social trends and concepts.
( http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Sociology/302/durkheim/durkheim.html )
Durkheim and Religion: Annotated Bibliography
This site provides an extensive list of secondary resources on Durkheim and religion.
( http://www.unc.edu/~elliott/durkheim.html )
Durkheim Key Concept Crossword Puzzle
This site provides a crossword puzzle you can do to test your knowledge of Durkheim's key concepts. Click on the number within the puzzle for clues.
( http://www.sociologyonline.co.uk/xwords/Durkheim.htm )