A few years ago I was planning a book on market capitalism—one that would demonstrate its inestimable virtues. But in a moment of candour it occurred to me that I had not exposed myself sufficiently ...

150 years ago, a French-Jewish teenager told his father, a rabbi in the town of Épinal, that he had decided against entering rabbinical school, thus breaking with a family tradition that stretched ...

In the same way that Sigmund Freud created a way of making sense of the dynamics and passions of the human psyche, the pioneering French sociologist, Emile Durkheim, created a language for ...

Galen Watts receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA). Queen's University, ...

Today is a big day for Jewish pride. It is Emile Durkheim’s birthday. Émile Durkheim was a son of a son of a rabbi. This legacy traced back eight generations and he himself was in a yeshiva studying ...

Workspace Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Durkheimian Studies / Études Durkheimiennes Vol. 10, 2004 Forms of Radicalism: Theoretical ...

One of the most intriguing aspects of Durkheim's work was precisely his failure to say anything in detail about the nature of the sacred in today's society. The Elementary Forms offered a conceptual ...

If I wanted to be controversial, as a sociologist, I might say that serial murder is “functional” for society. However, a less inflammatory way to say the same thing is that serial murder can be ...