Durkheimian remained a dominant force in French intellectual life until his death in 1917, presenting numerous lectures and published works on a variety of topics, including the sociology of knowledge, morality, social stratification, religion, law, education, and deviance.
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Durkheimian obtained his agregation in philosophy in 1882, though finishing next to last in his graduating class owing to serious illness the year before.
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Durkheimian became a full professor there in 1906, and in 1913 he was named chair in "Education and Sociology".
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Durkheimian's leftism was always patriotic rather than internationalist, in that he sought a secular, rational form of French life.
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Durkheimian agreed with Spencer's organic analogy, comparing society to a living organism.
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Durkheimian's methodology was influenced by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges, a supporter of the scientific method.
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Durkheimian believed that crime is "bound up with the fundamental conditions of all social life" and serves a social function.
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Durkheimian believed that deviance had three possible effects on society:.
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Durkheimian created a normative theory of suicide focusing on the conditions of group life.
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Durkheimian wanted to understand the empirical, social aspect of religion that is common to all religions and goes beyond the concepts of spirituality and God.
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Durkheimian argued, for example, that the categories of space and time were not a priori.
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