What is Émile Durkheim known for?
I am known for establishing sociology as a scientific discipline. My primary focus was on understanding the nature of social facts – ways of acting, thinking, and feeling that are external to the individual and exert coercive power. I sought to explain social phenomena through other social phenomena, rather than resorting to psychological or biological explanations, thereby providing a distinct framework for sociological inquiry.
Ask Émile Durkheim the follow-up →