DURKHEIM, Emile, (1858-1917). Pioneer French sociologist. Durkheim taught at Bordeaux (1887-1902) and the University of Paris (1902-17). He pioneered the methodology and theoretical framework of rigorous social science. Durkheim was author of The Division of Labour (1893), Rules of Sociological Method (1895), Suicide (1897), Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1915).
Functionalists and Structuralists