Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss

Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss
Author: Mike J. Gane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2002-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134922353

In this outstanding collection, Mike Gane brings together a selection of key articles on Durkheim and Mauss showing their points of convergence and divergence. Included here are Mauss's 'A sociological assessment of Bolshevism 1924-5' and his 'Letters on Communism, Fascism and Nazism'. This is an engrossing book not only for scholars and students of Durkheim and Mauss but for anyone interested in radical social theory.

Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss

Radical Sociology of Durkheim and Mauss
Author: Mike J. Gane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2002-01-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134922361

In this outstanding collection, Mike Gane brings together a selection of key articles on Durkheim and Mauss showing their points of convergence and divergence. Included here are Mauss's 'A sociological assessment of Bolshevism 1924-5' and his 'Letters on Communism, Fascism and Nazism'. This is an engrossing book not only for scholars and students of Durkheim and Mauss but for anyone interested in radical social theory.

On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method

On Durkheim's Rules of Sociological Method
Author: Mike Gane
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136875565

This radical appraisal of Durkheim's method, first published in 1988, argues that fundamental errors have been made in interpreting Durkheim. Mike Gane argues that to understand The Rules it is necessary also to understand the context of the French society in which the book was written. He explores the cultural and philosophical debates which raged in France during the period when Durkheim prepared the book and establishes the real and unsuspected complexity of Durkheim's position: its formal complexity, its epistemological complexity, and its historical complexity.

The Radical Durkheim

The Radical Durkheim
Author: Frank Pearce
Publisher: Canadian Scholars Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2001
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The Radical Durkheim provides an imaginative re-examination of the sociologist's work. A Poststructuralist Marxist approach is used to engage and criticize this seminal figure's work and also to reatin, develop and modify Durkheim's conceptualizations. By his willingness to pay careful attention to the different discourses and chains of meaning that lie embedded in, and traverse Durkheim's texts, the author provides both an important account of a major theorist and an illustration of the excitement of a creative engagement with theory.

The Social Origins of Thought

The Social Origins of Thought
Author: Johannes F.M. Schick
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2022-03-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800732341

By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the thoughts of individuals are prefigured by society and vice versa.

Marcel Mauss

Marcel Mauss
Author: Wendy James
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1998
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN: 9781571817051

Presents results of a September 1996 conference held at Oxford University, re-evaluating the importance of the writings and inspiration of Marcel Mauss, the nephew and younger colleague of Emile Durkheim. Explores not only the context of Mauss' work and his influence on other writers, but also the resonance of some of his key themes for the concerns of today's anthropology and sociology. Papers are arranged in sections on the scholar and his time, foundations of Maussian anthropology, critiques of exchange and power, and materiality, body, and history. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge

Durkheim's Philosophy of Science and the Sociology of Knowledge
Author: Warren Schmaus
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1994-08-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780226742526

This text demonstrates the link between philosophy of science and scientific practice. Durkheim's sociology is examined as more than a collection of general observations about society, since the constructed theory of the meanings and causes of social life is incorporated.

The Division of Labor in Society

The Division of Labor in Society
Author: Emile Durkheim
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2014-02-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1476749736

"In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society studies the nature of social solidarity and explores the ties that bind one person to the next in order to hold society together. This revised and updated second edition fluently conveys original arguments for contemporary readers. Leading Durkheim scholar Steve Lukes's new introduction builds upon Lewis Coser's original -- which places the work in its intellectual and historical context and pinpoints its central ideas and arguments -- by focusing on the text's significance for how we ought to think sociologically about some central problems that face us today."--Back cover.

Emile Durkheim

Emile Durkheim
Author: Prof Kenneth Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2003-10-04
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1134495358

This book examines Durkheim's considerable achievements and situates them in their social and intellectual contexts, with a concise account of the major elements of Durkheim's sociology. The book includes a critical commentary on the four main studies which exemplify Durkheim's contribution to sociology: The Division of Labour in Society; Suicide; The Rules of Sociological Method and The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.