Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 3
COPYRIGHT......Page 4
DEDICATION......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
PART I RELIGION AS FONS ET ORIGO......Page 17
PART II MORAL AGENTS, SOCIAL BEINGS......Page 22
PART III THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL MORALIST AND THE MORALIST......Page 26
THE ROLE OF THE SCIENTIFIC MORALIST: DURKHEIM’S LEGACY......Page 31
NOTE......Page 32
REFERENCES......Page 33
Part I RELIGION AS FONS ET ORIGO......Page 34
1 DURKHEIM AND LA CITE ANTIQUE......Page 36
FUSTEL DE COULANGES: BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIAL CONTEXT......Page 37
THE IDEAS OF LA CITÉ ANTIQUE (1864)......Page 39
DURKHEIM, FUSTEL, AND THE SOCIOLOGY OF RELIGION......Page 44
CONCLUSION......Page 49
NOTES......Page 50
REFERENCES......Page 61
2 THE ORIGINS OF CONCEPTUAL THINKING IN DURKHEIM......Page 64
CLASSIFICATION AND ABSTRACT CATEGORIES......Page 65
CLASSIFICATION, EMOTION AND THE SACRED......Page 69
RELIGION AND COSMOLOGY: KEYS TO EPISTEMOLOGY......Page 71
WHY TURN TO RELIGION?......Page 74
IS IT POSSIBLE TO DISENTANGLE THE RELIGIOUS FROM THE SOCIAL?......Page 76
CONCLUSION......Page 77
NOTES......Page 78
REFERENCES......Page 79
3 DURKHEIM’S SOCIOLOGY OF LAW......Page 82
THE FUNCTIONS OF LAW AND PUNISHMENT......Page 84
STAGES OF SOCIAL AND LEGAL EVOLUTION......Page 88
THE STATE, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE......Page 92
CONCLUSIONS......Page 98
NOTES......Page 102
REFERENCES......Page 103
THE POLITICAL CRISIS......Page 106
BASIC PREMISES......Page 107
THE POLITICAL ANALYSES......Page 111
THE CORPORATIVE SOCIETY AND THE STATE......Page 114
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5 DURKHEIM AND SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY......Page 122
PRE-ANNÉE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY......Page 123
SOCIAL MORPHOLOGY DURING THE YEARS OF THE ANNÉE SOCIOLOGIQUE......Page 131
SUMMARY AND CONCLUDING COMMENTS......Page 141
NOTES......Page 142
REFERENCES......Page 143
Part II MORAL AGENTS, SOCIAL BEINGS......Page 146
6 DURKHEIM ON SOCIAL ACTION......Page 148
ORDER AND ACTION: SOCIAL FORCES VERSUS INDIVIDUAL FORCES......Page 149
The explanation of individual action......Page 154
The explanation of collective action......Page 155
Intermezzo on the typology of social action......Page 158
DETERMINISM AND VOLUNTARISM: THE ACTOR’S AUTONOMY......Page 160
Autonomy, consensus and the pluralism of values......Page 165
ACTION AND PARTICIPATION: STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS OF DURKHEIM’S FRAMEWORK......Page 168
Represcntations and sentiments......Page 169
The link between the intensity of sentiments and the intensity of participation......Page 171
NOTES......Page 173
REFERENCES......Page 175
7 ANOMIE AND FATALISM IN DURKHEIM’S THEORY OF REGULATION......Page 176
THE OCCULTATION OF FATALISM......Page 177
THE CONTRADICTIONS OF FATALISM: DESIRE AND REGULATION......Page 182
ACUTE ANOMIE AND CHRONIC ANOMIE......Page 186
REGRESSIVE ANOMIE AND PROGRESSIVE ANOMIE......Page 188
TYPOLOGY OF REGULATION......Page 191
THE UNITY OF ANOMIE......Page 193
NOTES......Page 194
Part III THE ROLE OF THE SOCIOLOGICAL MORALIST AND THE MORALIST......Page 198
8 DURKHEIM’S SOCIOLOGY OF MORAL FACTS......Page 200
Positive morality......Page 201
The sanction as a criterion......Page 202
Morality and law......Page 203
From the normal to the normative......Page 204
THE TWO SIDES OF MORALITY......Page 205
Obligation and desirability......Page 206
The constraining objectivity of the value judgment......Page 207
Maintaining duality......Page 208
Society, foundation of the unity of morality......Page 210
Scientific knowledge and the autonomy of the will......Page 212
From moral science to moral art......Page 213
NOTES......Page 215
REFERENCES......Page 216
PARAMETERS OF A READING......Page 218
LEGITIMATING A STRATIFIED AND INEGALITARIAN SOCIAL STRUCTURE......Page 221
‘SOCIAL VALUE’ AND FUNCTIONS......Page 223
SOCIAL CLASSES AND EXPLOITATION......Page 225
AN INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION?......Page 227
DURKHEIM’S MISSION......Page 229
THE SPIRIT OF DURKHEIM TODAY......Page 230
NOTES......Page 231
REFERENCES......Page 234
10 DURKHEIM’S INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT......Page 236
SOME BIOGRAPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS......Page 238
BEYOND KANTIANISM AND POSITIVISM......Page 239
DURKHEIM’S FINAL WORKS......Page 246
NOTES......Page 249
REFERENCES......Page 250
NAME INDEX......Page 252
SUBJECT INDEX......Page 256