Emile Durkheim was a prominent French sociologist who attended the prestigious École Normale Supérieure in France. He became known as the principal architect of modern sociology and published and lectured extensively on topics including education, crime, religion, and suicide. Durkheim was primarily concerned with how society maintains integrity and coherence in modern times. He examined social facts that exist independently of individual actions, such as the persistence of suicide across societies. Durkheim strived to establish sociology as a rigorous science by taking an impartial and objective approach to observation.
