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Emile Durkheim Sociologist of Modernity

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ISBN-10: 0631219919

ISBN-13: 9780631219910

Edition: 2003

Authors: Mustafa Emirbayer, Ira J. Cohen

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Often described as lsquo;the father of sociologyrsquo;, Emile Durkheim ranks among the most important and influential figures in modern social thought. This volume captures the enduring value and importance of Durkheimian sociology, focusing on the diverse points of view theoretical, substantive, methodological, and even normative which it uses to analyze modern life. The book includes selections from Durkheimrsquo;s best-known writings as well as less widely-known texts that explore the themes of modern sociology. This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary readings by social thinkers of today,…    
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List price: $69.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/4/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

General Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction--Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity
Sociological Methodology
An Agenda for Sociology
Introduction
Durkheim Selection
from Suicide
Modern Selection
from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
A Topography of Modernity
Social Structure and Collective Consciousness
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Division of Labor in Society
"Note on Social Morphology"
Modern Selection
From "Open Schools--Open Society?"
Culture and Symbolic Classification
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
from Primitive Classification (with Mauss)
from "Individual and Collective Representations"
Modern Selections
from The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France
from The Savage Mind
from Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo
from Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
from Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Collective Emotions and Ritual Process
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
from "A Discussion on Sex Education"
Modern Selections
from The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure
from "The Nature of Deference and Demeanor"
from "On Face-Work"
from "Stratification, Emotional Energy, and the Transient Emotions"
from "Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille"
Individual and Collective Agency
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Elementary Forms of Religious Life
from The Evolution of Educational Thought
Modern Selections
from Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste
from "Culture and Political Crisis: 'Watergate' and Durkheimian Sociology"
The Institutional Order of Modern Societies
The Modern State
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Division of Labor in Society
from "Two Laws of Penal Evolution"
from Professional Ethics and Civic Morals
Modern Selections
from Selections from the Prison Notebooks
from "Civil Religion in America"
The Modern Economy
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Division of Labor in Society
from Socialism and Saint-Simon
from The Division of Labor in Society
Modern Selections
from The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia
from The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics
Civil Society (1): Occupational Groups and Family
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from Suicide
from Preface to the Second Edition of The Division of Labor in Society
from "Introduction to the Sociology of the Family"
from "The Conjugal Family"
Modern Selection
from To Empower People: From State to Civil Society
Civil Society (2): Education
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from "Education: Its Nature and its Role"
from Moral Education
from The Evolution of Educational Thought
Modern Selections
from "The School Class as a Social System: Some of its Functions in American Society"
from Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Morality and Modernity
Individuality and Autonomy
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Division of Labor in Society
from Suicide
from Moral Education
from "The Determination of Moral Facts"
from "The Dualism of Human Nature"
from "Individualism and the Intellectuals"
Modern Selections
from "The Nature of Deference and Demeanor"
from Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children
Durkheim's Methodological Manifesto
Introduction
Durkheim Selections
from The Rules of Sociological Method
Index