Emile Durkheim: Critical Assessments of Leading Sociologists, Volume 2A five volume collection of scholarly journal articles and chapters from books covering the subject of Emile Durkheim's work. The five volumes are thematically organized in the following sections: Volume I: 1. Durkheim: The man himself, 2. General sociology. Volume II: 3. Religion, 4. Epistemology and the philosophy of science. Volume III: 5. Morality and ethics, 6. Political sociology. Volume IV: 7. Suicide and anomie, 8. Division of labour and economics, 9. EducationP |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Durkheim and the study of religion | 50 |
The sacred and the French Revolution | 74 |
the cult of anniversaries | 92 |
Rescuing Durkheims rites from the symbolizing | 123 |
reading Chapter VII Book | 136 |
Collective effervescence and symbolism | 152 |
collective effervescence | 167 |
Introduction | 223 |
Une écologie de la connaissance estelle possible? | 271 |
a contextual interpretation | 291 |
Towards a new spirit of the laws | 324 |
Durkheim Montesquieu and Method | 347 |
Collective representations as social institutions | 385 |
human reason explained | 447 |
a critical discussion | 461 |
Effervescence and the origins of human society | 189 |
Personne et sacré chez Durkheim | 204 |
Meaning and representation in the social sciences | 476 |
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