Essays on Sociology and Philosophy

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 3
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Preface......Page 7
Analyses......Page 15
Durkheim: The Man, His Time, and His Intellectual Background. HENRI PEYRE......Page 17
Individualism and Socialism in Durkheim. JOSEPH NEVER......Page 46
Conscience Collective and Culture. PAUL BOHANNAN......Page 91
The Development of Durkheim's Concept of Ritual and the Problem of Social Disrelationships. HUGH DALZIEL DUNCAN......Page 111
Durkheim's Contribution to the Theory of Integration of Social Systems. TALCOTT PARSONS......Page 132
Durkheim and Functionalism. ALBERT PIERCE......Page 168
Durkheim's Politics and Political Theory. MELVIN RICHTER......Page 184
Durkheim's Conservatism and Its Implications for His Sociological Theory. LEWIS A. COSER......Page 225
The Influence of Durkheim and His School on the Study of Religion. PAUL HONIGSHEIM......Page 247
Some Aspects of the Legacy of Durkheim. ALBERT SALOMON......Page 261
Durkheim in American Sociology. ROSCOE C HlNKLE, JR.......Page 281
Durkheim's Influence on Japanese Sociology. KAZUTA KURAUCHI......Page 310
Reminiscences of the Durkheim School. PAUL HONIGSHEIM......Page 323
Translations......Page 329
Durkheim's Letter to Radcliffe-Brown (with a facsimile ofthe original) J. G. PERISTIANY......Page 331
The Dualism of Human Nature and Its Social Conditions......Page 343
Preface to Volume I......Page 359
Preface to Volume II......Page 365
Sociology and Its Scientific Field......Page 372
Sociology......Page 394
INTRODUCTION......Page 404
I. Nietzsche......Page 405
Ill. The Anglo-Saxon Milieu: Peirce......Page 408
WILLIAM JAMES......Page 411
THE PRAGMATIST MOVEMENT......Page 413
Critical Part......Page 415
THE DOGMATIC CONCEPTION OF TRUTH......Page 417
CRITICISM OF DOGMATISM......Page 420
Truth and Human Knowledge......Page 423
Extra-Human Truth and Pure Intellect......Page 425
Ideal Truth and Concrete Truths......Page 427
The Static Conception of Reality......Page 430
The Pluralist Conception of Reality......Page 434
PRAGMATISM AND THE CRITICISM OF CONCEPTUAL THOUGHT......Page 438
DEFICIENCIES OF THIS CRITICISM......Page 443
THE FUNDAMENTAL MOTIVATION OF THEPRAGMATIST ATTITUDE......Page 445
THE VARlATIONS OF TRUTH......Page 449
HOW THESE VARIATIONS CAN BE EXPLAINED......Page 453
An Introductory Durkheim Bibliography. KURT H. WOLFF......Page 455
Notes on the Contributors......Page 464
Index......Page 467