Max Weber
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Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was a German sociologist, historian, jurist, and political economist who was one of the central figures in the development of sociology and the social sciences more generall
Weber in 1918
Max Weber (left) and his brothers, Alfred (center) and Karl (right), in 1879
Max Weber and his wife Marianne in 1894
Max Weber in 1907
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
Max Weber
…engaged with his life and ideas. As a result of these works, he began to be regarded as a founding father of sociology, alongside Karl Marx and Émile Durkheim, and one of the central figures in the development of the social sciences more generally. Maximilian Carl Emil Weber was born on 21 April 1864 in Erfurt…
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)