This author of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and Suicide also wrote a work in which he attempted to legitimize the field of sociology by moving it towards a scientific study.
This thinker characterized the development of beliefs of the supernatural by analyzing the relations to outside objects that became totemism in one work, while in another he analyzed a phenomenon that he showed was higher in peacetime than in wartime; that work split a certain action into fatalistic, anomic, altruistic, and egoistic types. This author of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life and Suicide also wrote a work in which he attempted to legitimize the field of sociology by moving it towards a scientific study. For 10 points, name this Frenchman who wrote Rules of the Sociological Method.
This thinker characterized the development of beliefs of the supernatural by analyzing the relations to outside objects that became totemism in one work, while in another he analyzed a phenomenon that he showed was higher in peacetime than in wartime; that work split a certain action into fatalistic, anomic, altruistic, and egoistic types.
Emile {Durkheim}