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

• Social theoryRelated: His work treats collective forces as realities that shape individual conduct.

• Sociological theoryRelated: His work made social cohesion and institutions central theoretical problems.

• Structure and agencyRelated: His emphasis on social constraint anchors one side of the debate.

• Human sacrificeRelated: His framework helps explain sacrificial rites as acts that reinforce social solidarity.

• Alfred Radcliffe-BrownRelated: Durkheim’s treatment of social facts and collective representations shaped Radcliffe-Brown’s theory.

• Ferdinand TönniesRelated: Durkheim’s account of solidarity offers a major parallel to Tönnies’s analysis of social bonds.

• Numa Denis Fustel de CoulangesRelated: Durkheim’s sociology offers a later framework for comparing Fustel’s account of religion and social cohesion.

• Peter BlauRelated: Durkheim’s concern with social structures beyond individuals parallels Blau’s central project.

• Evolutionary origin of religionRelated: His account of religion as a source of social solidarity influenced later evolutionary explanations.

• History of sociologyRelated: His methods and institutional work helped secure sociology’s place in universities.

• Ritual warfareRelated: His account of ritual as a source of social solidarity informs interpretations of collective combat.

• Theories about religionRelated: His theory explains religion through ritual, social solidarity, and the distinction between sacred and profane.

• TotemRelated: His theory treated totemic symbols as expressions of a group's collective life.