Émile Durkheim█

To understand humanity, I endeavored to reveal the invisible threads—solidarity, anomie, collective conscience—that bind individuals to society and infuse meaning into every ritual and institution.

Ask me about the sacred and the profane, about why suicide statistics disclose more about the bonds between us than any solitary motive, or how the modern division of labor reshapes the very soul of communities.

By patiently treating society itself as a reality sui generis, I made sociology not merely a subject of speculation but a science with its own laws.