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Durkheim / Gianfranco Poggi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Poggi, Gianfranco, author.
- Series:
- Founders of modern political and social thought.
- Founders of modern political and social thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917.
- Durkheim, Émile.
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 182 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This series presents critical examinations of the work of major political philosophers and social theorists, assessing their initial contribution and continuing relevance to politics and society.
- 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?
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-169539-4
- 0-19-878087-7
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