With reference to the original writings of one of the theorists you have studied describe and evaluate their analysis of social conditions?

Emile Durkheim has often been described as the founder of professional sociology. French by nationality, Durkheim based his theories within the French territorial affinity intellectually. Durkheim inherited the ideas of the Division of Labour and the Biological Analogy as social conditions. Both of which derived from the initial findings of Comte and Saint-Simon s work. Durkheim s domain in sociology was centrally concerned with the social realm, which he believed differentiated from the psychological interests of the individual.

It is thought that Durkheim s sociological interests were rooted in the political sphere occurring in France during the period between, 1870 and 1895. As seen in the work of many theorists since the French Revolution….(short extract)