Mary Douglas
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Dame Mary Douglas, was a British anthropologist, known for her writings on human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émi
Mary Douglas
Family grave of Mary Douglas in Highgate Cemetery
Émile Durkheim
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David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along wit
Mary Douglas
…known for her writings on human culture, symbolism and risk, whose area of speciality was social anthropology. Douglas was considered a follower of Émile Durkheim and a proponent of structuralist analysis, with a strong interest in comparative religion. She was born as Margaret Mary Tew in Sanremo, Italy, to…
Émile Durkheim
A collection of Durkheim's courses on the origins of socialism (1896), edited and published by his nephew, Marcel Mauss, in 1928
Grave of Émile Durkheim, the founder of sociology, in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
Cover of the French edition of The Rules of Sociological Method (1919)