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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

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émile durkheim
durkheimian



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

—p.107 The Social State (99) by Alain Supiot
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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.

—p.129 Kaleidoscopics of Power (127) by Anders Stephanson
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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.

—p.135 Kaleidoscopics of Power (127) by Anders Stephanson
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critical theory must eschew the Durkheimian assumption of a single, overarching pattern of cultural value

—p.59 Social Justice in the Age of Identity Politics: Redistribution, Recognition, and Participation (7) by Nancy Fraser
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