Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory includes reissues of three seminal works by eminent French thinker Emile Durkheim, one of the founding father s of Sociology. This collection brings together the following import sociological works: Sociology and Philosophy, which first appeared in English in 1953; the hugely influential Socialism and Saint-Simon, first published in English in 1959; and Durkheim’s book with Marcel Mauss on sociological classification, entitled Primitive Classification, whose first English publication was in 1969.