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The 75 pages that link to Émile Durkheim, each with the reason it gives.

• RitualRelated: His account links ritual gatherings to the renewal of collective life.

• Social stratificationRelated: Durkheim's account of the division of labor linked social hierarchy to occupational roles.

• PositivismRelated: Durkheim's methodological program applied positivist standards to sociological research.

• Max WeberCompared with: Durkheim’s emphasis on social facts contrasts with Weber’s focus on meaningful individual action.

• SecularizationRelated: His work frames religious change as a transformation of social functions, not simply belief.

• Division of laborRelated: He recast division of labor as a basis of social solidarity and interdependence.

• SociologyRelated: His work helped define sociology as a distinct academic discipline.

• Social structureRelated: Durkheim treated social structures as realities that shape individual conduct.

• Claude Lévi-StraussRelated: Durkheim's comparative sociology formed part of the intellectual background Lévi-Strauss reworked.

• AlienationCompared with: Durkheim’s analysis of anomie offers a distinct sociological account of social disconnection.

• Auguste ComteRelated: Durkheim inherited Comte’s ambition for a distinct science of society, while revising its methods.

• Structural functionalismRelated: His accounts of institutions and collective life became central foundations for functionalist sociology.

• ModernityRelated: His account explains how modern differentiation can bind societies together.

• TabooRelated: His framework clarified how prohibitions can defend a community’s sacred boundaries.

• Social controlRelated: His account of collective norms explains how society constrains individual conduct.

• Robert K. MertonRelated: Durkheim’s functional analysis informed the tradition Merton revised and made more empirically specific.

• ConscienceRelated: His work supports explanations of conscience as partly formed by social life.

• SacrificeRelated: Durkheim interpreted sacrifice through the ways ritual renews bonds within a community.

• Talcott ParsonsRelated: Durkheim’s account of moral integration informed Parsons’s explanation of societal cohesion.

• Henri BergsonCompared with: Durkheim’s social-scientific approach differed from Bergson’s emphasis on intuition and individual experience.

• TotemismRelated: He treated Australian totemic religion as a key case in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

• Herbert SpencerRelated: Durkheim’s sociology developed after Spencer and addressed some of the same questions about social cohesion.

• Religious studiesRelated: Durkheim’s account became foundational for sociological approaches to religion.

• Anthropology of religionRelated: His account of sacred symbols and social solidarity strongly influenced anthropological approaches.

• Civil religionRelated: His account of ritual and collective sacredness helps explain civil religion’s social force.

• Marc BlochRelated: Durkheimian social analysis influenced the Annales School’s attention to collective structures.

• LiminalityRelated: Turner’s account of ritual transition builds on questions about how collective life is organized.

• WorshipRelated: Durkheim treated communal rites as ways groups renew their shared identity.

• Marcel MaussRelated: Mauss’s uncle and intellectual mentor, Durkheim shaped his approach to social facts and collective life.

• Sociology of religionRelated: His account of religion as a source of collective solidarity shaped the field’s core questions.

• Cultural determinismRelated: His concept of social facts shows how collective patterns constrain individual conduct.

• Georg SimmelCompared with: Durkheim’s emphasis on society as an external reality contrasts with Simmel’s focus on interaction.

• ProfessionalizationRelated: Durkheim considered occupational groups potential sources of moral regulation in modern society.

• Social evolutionRelated: His distinction between mechanical and organic solidarity links social complexity to forms of cohesion.

• Social orderRelated: Durkheim explained order through shared beliefs and interdependence.

• Social scienceRelated: His work helped demonstrate how social structures could be investigated empirically.

• The GiftRelated: Mauss’s uncle and mentor shaped the intellectual setting in which the essay was written.

• Victor TurnerNarrower topic: Durkheim’s account of ritual and collective life forms a broader intellectual precursor.

• Incest tabooRelated: His account of social regulation helps explain why kin prohibitions can carry collective force.

• Medical sociologyRelated: His methods helped establish the study of social patterns in health and mortality.

• Sociology of knowledgeRelated: His account of collective representations supplied an early foundation for sociological explanations of knowledge.

• The Sacred and the ProfaneRelated: His account made the sacred–profane distinction a central sociological idea.

• AnomieRelated: He framed anomie as a breakdown of regulation during rapid social change.

• Anthony GiddensRelated: Giddens engages with the problem of how social order constrains and coordinates individual action.

• Cognitive science of religionRelated: His social account offers a major historical counterpart to cognitive explanations.

• CriminologyRelated: His account of crime as a social phenomenon influenced sociological criminology.

• Economic sociologyRelated: His account of social order informed sociological explanations of economic rules and obligations.

• Ernest GellnerRelated: Gellner’s explanations likewise give social organization a central role in shaping beliefs and institutions.

• History of religionRelated: His account connected ritual and sacred symbols to collective social life.

• Religious ritualRelated: Durkheim argued that shared rites renew a community's sense of itself.