Below is the list of works I referenced for this site (and the specific versions of Durkheim's books) as well as the names of authors who have spent much time on Durkheim.
Of course, the best way to learn about the ideas of any scholar is to read their actual work first hand. Click here for an extensive list of works by Emile Durkheim.
Sources:
Bellah, Robert N. (ed). 1973. Emile Durkheim: On Morality and Society, Selected Writings. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Curry, Tim, Robert Jiobu and Kent Schwirian. 1997. Sociology for the 21st Century. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Simon and Schuster.
Durkheim, Emile. 1933. The Division of Labor In Society translated by George Simpson. New York: The Free Press.
Durkheim, Emile. 1951. Suicide: A Study in Sociology translated by George Simpson and John A. Spaulding. New York: The Free Press.
Eitzen, Stanley D. and Maxine Baca Zinn. 1997. Social Problems (7th ed.). Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Giddens, Anthony (ed). 1972. Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings. London: Cambridge University Press.
Henslin, James M. 1997. Sociology: A Down-to-Earth Approach. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
Siegel, Larry J. 1995. Criminology: Theories, Patterns, and Typologies. St. Paul, MN: West Publishing Company.
Simpson, George. 1963. Emile Durkheim: Selections From His Work. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Of the many authors that have written about Durkheim and his ideas, several are noteworthy:
Kenneth Thompson and Anthony Giddens have each compiled several volumes of Durkheim's essays, as well as contributed biographies of his life. There is, of course, always Lewis Coser, whose Masters of Sociological Thought is widely regarded as one of the best sources for information on the famous sociologists, especially Durkheim.
