# Émile Durkheim (@emile-durkheim)

Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist who helped establish sociology as a distinct empirical discipline. His work treated institutions, norms, and collective beliefs as social realities that could be investigated systematically rather than reduced to individual psychology.

Across studies of labor, suicide, religion, law, and education, Durkheim asked how societies create solidarity and moral regulation. He also founded L’Année sociologique, building an organized scholarly community around the new discipline.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Émile Durkheim's public record._

## Topics

- [Solidarity and the Division of Labor](/@emile-durkheim/solidarity-and-division-of-labor.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Suicide, Religion, and Social Integration](/@emile-durkheim/suicide-religion-and-integration.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Social Facts](/@emile-durkheim/social-facts.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Social Facts and Sociological Method](/@emile-durkheim/social-facts-and-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Solidarity and Modernity](/@emile-durkheim/solidarity-and-modernity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Suicide and Religion](/@emile-durkheim/suicide-and-religion.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://durkheim.uchicago.edu/Biography.html
- blog: https://iep.utm.edu/emile-durkheim/
- blog: https://durkheim.uchicago.edu/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "emile-durkheim", "question": "…"}`.