Durkhiem was born in 1858 in the town of Epinal. His father was a rabbi and Durkhiem was also affected by a schoolteacher who was Roman Catholic. These influences which probably got him interested in religion. He was a professor at the University of Bordeaux. He wrote many books such as The Division of Labor, The rules of Sociological Method, Suicide, and many others.
Durkhiem had two fixed fundamental principles: (1) “that the nature of society is the most suitable and promising subject for systematic investigation, especially at the present moment in history, and (2) that all such “social fa