a French sociologist (1858-1917) who formally established the academic discipline and—with Karl Marx and Max Weber—is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science
France contributed the third pillar of the social state: the theory of public services. One of its main architects was the jurist Léon Duguit. Strongly influenced by Durk
The initial polarity here is between ideology along Durkheimian lines as a power-enhancing means of solidarity and cohesion in social formations, and ideology as Weberian value-rationality, where there can be no adjudication between ultimate values.
Most Americans had, to be sure, a shallow grasp of foreign realities and were prone to a fearful anti-communism—a case of Durkheimian ideological excess, perhaps.
critical theory must eschew the Durkheimian assumption of a single, overarching pattern of cultural value