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Emile Durkheim:

Emile Durkheim was a French sociologist in the mid- to late 1800's, whose influence extends to the discipline of anthropology as well. It was the nature of his work to study not only social issues of the day, but to gather and work with cross- cultural (ethnographic) data as well, toward a broad science of human society.

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