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The Social Thought of Emile Durkheim

Name: The Social Thought of Emile Durkheim
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By Alexander T. Riley
Imprint: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Format: PAPERBACK
Pages: 280

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This new volume of the SAGE Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of Emile Durkheim. Most students of sociology know that Durkheim is one of the informal 'holy trinity' of founding thinkers in the discipline, along with Max Weber and Karl Marx. In this book, the author shows that Durkheim's perspective is quite arguably the most properly sociological one among the discipline's founders and, further, that many of the criticisms invoked to reduce his stature in comparison to other founding thinkers are weak and unfounded. He thought through the nature of society, culture, and the complex relationship of the individual to the collective in a manner more concentrated and thorough than any other thinker alive during the period (roughly 1880-1920) of the emergence of the discipline of sociology.

Alexander Riley has written a good deal on Durkheim and from a fundamentally Durkheimian perspective on various topics over the past 15 years. These writings include his doctoral thesis at the University of California, San Diego ("In Pursuit of the Sacred: The Durkheimian Sociologists of Religion and the Modern Intellectual") and several of his books (Godless Intellectuals? The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented; Impure Play: Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture; and the forthcoming Angel Patriots in the Sky: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America). He is spending the academic year 2013 through 2014 in Paris on a Fulbright Research Grant, along with his wife, Esmeralda; their daughter, Valeria; and the family cat.

Chapter 1. David Emile Durkheim, Life and Times Chapter 2. Moral Solidarity and the New Social Science: Durkheim's Study of the Individual in Society and Society in the Individual Chapter 3. Morality, Law, the State and Politics Chapter 4. Establishing a Social Science Chapter 5. Education as Social Science and Cultural Politics Chapter 6. The "Revelation" of Religion Chapter 7. Unfinished Business: La Morale, the Family, and the War Chapter 8. Further Readings

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