| Description |
ix, 182 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Founders of modern political and social thought |
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Founders of modern political and social thought.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index. |
| Contents |
1. A scholar's life and its context -- Biographical facts -- Durkheim and his generation -- The contemporary significance of Durkheim's work -- 2. Nature and task of the sociological enterprise -- A Positivist manifesto -- Philosophy as an opponent -- Treating social facts as things -- The role of sanctions -- Observation versus speculation -- Types of society -- A commitment to explanation -- Psychology as an opponent -- Individualization as a social process -- 3. The pattern of social evolution -- An ecological approach -- How are societies put together? -- Some problems with this contrast -- Differentiation as the master process -- An alternative construction criticized -- Two types of solidarity -- The social dynamics of change -- An argument about "representations" -- Provisional conclusions concerning De la division du travail social -- 4. Deviance -- The key text : suicide -- Manners of acting and thinking -- Suicide as deviance -- The construction of suicide types -- Why deviance? -- Egoistic suicide -- Altruistic suicide -- Anomic suicide -- A critique of modern society -- 5. What is society for Durkheim? -- A missing definition -- A contingent reality -- Two kinds of representation -- Durkheim's pathos -- The centrality of "ought" -- Twofold man -- 6. Law -- Main sources -- Durkheim's understanding of law -- Sanctions : repressive and restitutive -- Crime and punishment -- The evolution of Criminal Law -- The institution of contract -- The evolution of property -- Further on the Law of Contract -- The emergence of consensual contract -- Contract as a point of arrival, not departure -- Individual rights in general -- 7. Political institutions -- The place of political themes within Durkheim's work -- Durkheim's political blind spots -- The differentiation of political structures -- The state as society's brain -- Democracy -- Democratic communication -- Dangers of democracy -- The political role of occupational groups -- A Corporatist project -- Civil society -- 8. Religion -- Two states of consciousness -- Sacred and profane -- Inadequate understandings of religion -- Totemism -- God is society -- Society is god -- Rituals -- Durkheim's pathos again -- An answer to the pathos -- A new religion? |
| Summary |
"In this readable and compact introduction to one of the most significant social thinkers of the last one hundred years, Gianfranco Poggi examines closely all of Durkheim's 'canonical' works and assesses their significance today. Poggi also considers closely just what Durkheim meant by 'society' and assesses his contribution to both political sociology and the sociology of law, putting Durkheim's writings into the context of the generation of European scholars to which he belonged. Poggi's clear and concise reappraisal of this towering figure in the development of modern sociological thought provides both an essential overview of his major writings and also illustrates just why Durkheim is still so widely read and debated a century after his death."--Jacket. |
| Processing Action |
Self-Renewing 2017 UoY |
| Subject |
Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
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Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
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71.01 history of sociology. (NL-LeOCL)077596951
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Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917 (OCoLC)fst00028702
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Sociology -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01123904
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Durkheim, Émile 1858-1917 (DE-588)118528297
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Soziologie (DE-588)4077624-4
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Sociologie.
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Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. (NL-LeOCL)068376901
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Durkheim, Émile.
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| Indexed Term |
sosiologi |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies (form) (NL-LeOCL)088141799
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| ISBN |
0198780877 (pbk.) |
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9780198780878 (pbk.) |
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