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Emile Durkheim and Sociology

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Paul Carls
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
2
Matthieu Queloz
University of Bern
3
Rasmus Ahlstrand
Twitter (United States)
4
Marie-Astrid Le Theule
Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers
5
Debapriya Ganguly
Savitribai Phule Pune University
6
Federico Brandmayr
Yale University
7
Serge Benest
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
8
Rouven Symank
Harvard University Press
9
Mariza Peirano
Universidade de Brasília
10
Wiebke Keim
Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe

Rising Stars Papers

1
The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
Analysis|2024
44 cit.
2
Internalism from the ethnographic stance: from self-indulgence to self-expression and corroborative sense-making
The Philosophical Quarterly|2024
18 cit.
3
Moralism as a Dualism in Ethics and Politics
Political Philosophy|2024
6 cit.
4
Durkheim’s Empire: The Concept of Solidarity and Its Colonial Dimension
American Political Science Review|2024
4 cit.
5
Can AI Rely on the Systematicity of Truth? The Challenge of Modelling Normative Domains
Philosophy & Technology|2025
4 cit.
6
Disciplinary identity and the idea of a unified social science: A survey of British academics
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A|2025
4 cit.
7
Deconstruction as a Moral Fact
Durkheimian Studies|2024
2 cit.
8
On the Fundamental Limitations of AI Moral Advisors
Philosophy & Technology|2025
2 cit.
9
Defending Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering
Analysis|2024
1 cit.
10
From disappointment to audience switch: Giorgio Agamben and the pandemic
American Journal of Cultural Sociology|2024
1 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Dustin S. Stoltz
University of Notre Dame
2
Rin Ushiyama
Queen's University Belfast
3
Vanessa Lamattina
University of Salerno
4
Nicola Marcucci
École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique
5
Fabio Dei
University of Pisa
6
Daniel Jaster
Eureka College
7
Shlomo Fischer
Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
8
René Salomon
University of Würzburg
9
Tad Skotnicki
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
10
Jayme Gomes Neto
Freie Universität Berlin

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
text2map: R Tools for Text Matrices
The Journal of Open Source Software|2022
9 cit.
2
Rising Coauthorship in Sociology, 1895 to 2022
Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World|2023
8 cit.
3
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis
Sociological Methods & Research|2024
7 cit.
4
The Sacred and the Profane: the Differential Organization of Social Spheres between Liberal Elites and Lower Class Mizrahim in Israel
The American Sociologist|2022
3 cit.
5
A symposium on Georg Simmel: Essays on art and aesthetics
Thesis Eleven|2022
3 cit.
6
Imaginative labor and embodied cognition: Economic sociology as a cognitive science
Current Sociology|2024
3 cit.
7
The Critical Masses: The Rise of Contemporary Populism and Its Relation to Solidarity, Systems, and Lifeworlds
Society|2022
2 cit.
8
Materiality and Change in Social Fields
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour|2023
2 cit.
9
Meaning and the Commodity Form
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour|2024
2 cit.
10
A workflow for analyzing cultural schemas in texts
Journal of Mathematical Sociology|2024
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Whitney B. Pope
University of California, Los Angeles
2
Loïc Wacquant
University of California System
3
Philip A. Mellor
The Pirbright Institute
4
Philippe Besnard
Inserm
5
Steffen Mau
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
6
Philip Pettit
Princeton University
7
Warren Schmaus
University of Pittsburgh
8
Anna S. Mueller
University of Zurich
9
Hannah Holleman
Amherst College
10
Jean‐Philippe Deranty
Macquarie University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology.
Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews|1993
9.4k cit.
2
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
The Canadian Journal of Sociology|1993
8.4k cit.
3
Deadly Symbiosis
Punishment & Society|2001
1.2k cit.
4
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government.
The Philosophical Review|1999
1.1k cit.
5
Towards a Reflexive Sociology: A Workshop with Pierre Bourdieu
Sociological Theory|1989
915 cit.
6
Territorial Stigmatization in the Age of Advanced Marginality
Thesis Eleven|2007
906 cit.
7
On the Cunning of Imperialist Reason
Theory Culture & Society|1999
873 cit.
8
Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism
Social Anthropology|2012
754 cit.
9
Crafting the Neoliberal State: Workfare, Prisonfare, and Social Insecurity1
Sociological Forum|2010
750 cit.
10
Pugs at Work: Bodily Capital and Bodily Labour among Professional Boxers
Body & Society|1995
663 cit.

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