Émile Durkheim

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CHEN Chak Yan

LAI Hei Laam

LAM Yan Lok

LIANG Wing Yi

LIAO Pong Wun

MOK Tang Han

Emile Dukheim was a French sociologist in the late 19th and 20th century (1858-1917), who was the establisher of sociology as an academic discipline. He was also well-known for theories such as functionalism, division of labor, anomy, solidarity, social integration and so forth (Carls, 2025).

In this story map, we are going to delve into how his life story and different locations exert influence on his works, such as The Division of Labor in Society (1893), The Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Education and Sociology (1922) and Moral Education (1925). In the follwing, the timeline will reveal the important events of Durkheim’s life. As for locations’ influence on his works, you will have a glimpse of their impacts on Durkheim’s works and theoretical development in the map tour section.

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