Gunning Bedford Sr. was an American lawyer and politician from New Castle, in New Castle County, Delaware. He was an officer in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and a member of the Federalist Party, who served in the Delaware General Assembly and as Governor of Delaware. He is often confused with his cousin, Gunning Bedford Jr., who was a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Ãmile Durkheim was a French sociologist whose major contribution was establishing sociology as a major science. Along with Max Weber and Karl Marx, Durkheim is responsible for establishing social science and social psychology as an academic discipline within the college setting.
Which is why Durkheimâs views of deviance have been pretty much ignored by sociologists for over 100 years. A Deviant Discovery. A sociologist, Durkheim was a firm believer in empirical observation. So he began his study of deviance by studying as many societies as he could.