This four volume set is dedicated to the work of Emile Durkheim, one of the most important and prolific sociologists in the field, who is commonly cited as a founding father of modern social science. With volumes published between 1975 and 1991, this collection brings together a range of modern critical responses to Durkheim's work across a broad range of topics, including: epistemology, modernism and post-modernism, theories of social order, and the rise and development of modern society. The authors in the collection also draw important comparisons between Durkheim and other seminal sociologists, including Max Weber and Claude Bernard.
Author(s): Mike Gane, Stjepan Mestrovic, Richard Munch, Paul Q. Hirst
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Emile Durkheim
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 813
City: London
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Volume 1
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Part One
1 Durkheim, the Rules and the Problem
2 The Remarkable Argument of the Rules
3 The Problematic Consistency of Durkheim’s ‘Official’ Method
4 Variations of Method in Durkheim’s Main Sociological Analyses
5 Durkheim’s Sociology
Part Two
6 Introduction: the Rules and the Sociologists
7 The Debate Over the Rules in Recent British Sociology
8 The Storm Over the Rules in France During Durkheim’s Lifetime
9 French Discussion of the Rules After 1917
10 The Anglo-Saxon Reception of the Rules
11 Durkheim’s Brief Reply to his Critics
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12 Complex Transitions
13 A Closer Look at the Emergence of the Rules
14 An Examination of the Argument of the Rules
15 Criticisms of Durkheim Examined
16 Conclusions
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Volume 2
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Introduction
Part One: Claude Bernard
1 Claude Bernard’s Epistemology
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The Separation of Philosophy and Science
Determinism
Experimental Reasoning
The Limits of Bernard’s Epistemology
2 Bernard’s Physiology
The Problematic of Bernardian Physiology
Ideologies and the Sciences of Life
Part Two: Émile Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method
3 Durkheim’s Epistemology
The Theory of Ideology
The Theory of the Facticity of the Social
The Theory of Scientific Knowledge
4 Pathology and Morphology
1 The Normal and the Pathological
2 Social Morphology
5 Individualism and Holism: Purpose, Function and Social Facts
Humanism and Anti-Humanism
Individual and Social Effectivity
Social Needs and Social Functions
6 Individualism and Holism: Vitalism and the Social Milieu
The Law of the Transformation of Things
Naturphilosophie and Scientific Theory
Transformations in the Realm of Consciousness
The Social Milieu
7 Conclusion: The Rules of Sociological Method and Durkheim’s Sociology
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Volume 3
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1 Back to the Future
2 Defining Modernity and Postmodernism
3 Durkheim's Era: The Cult of Feeling Versus the Cult of Reason
4 Simmel and Durkheim as the First Sociologists of Modernity
5 Durkheim's Stand on the Fin De Siècle
6 The German Roots of Durkheim's Sociology
7 Ethics Based on the Mind Versus the Heart, Rationality Versus Compassion
8 Medjugorje, the Virgin Mary, and Medernity
9 Postmodern Deregulation and Economic Anomie
10 Civilization and its Discontents, Again
11 Conclusions: The Coming Fin De Siècle and Postmodernism
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Volume 4
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Part One: Between positivism, idealism and voluntarism: Max Weber and Emile Durkheim
1 The convergence between Weber and Durkheim: Interpretation and explanation, the sacred and the profane
1.1 Max Weber: Adequacy of cause and meaning, religious ethics and world
1.2 Emile Durkheim: Causal and meaning analysis, the sacred and the profane
2 The divergence between Weber and Durkheim: Rational and affectual bases of modern social order
2.1 Intellectual rationalization and affectual universali
2.2. The affectual foundation of modern social orders: Great Britain and the USA
2.3 Weber’s and Durkheim’s solutions to the problem of order in modern societies within the voluntaristic frame of reference
2.4 On the theory of voluntaristic order’s empirical specification
Part Two: Social order and individual autonomy: Emile Durkheim
3 Community and social order
3.1 The non-contractual foundations of contract
3.2 The communal anchoring of normative order
4 Socialization and personality development
4.1 The integration of social order and individual autonomy as the central problem of action theory
4.2 The interpenetration of individual desires and social obligations. Emile Durkheim’s theoretical perspective and its convergence with classic theories of socialization
4.3 The development of the personality by socialization
4.4 Integration and malintegration between individual and society
Part Three: The unique nature, formation, development and structural problems of the modern social order: Max Weber
5 ‘Capitalism’ and ‘occidental rationalism’: Two perspectives on the analysis of the structural problems in modern societies
5.1 Commodity production, market association, alienation, and value antinomies
5.2 The self-expansion of capital, alienation of waged labor, the creation of value, determination of the price of labor, and antinomies between values
5.3 Concluding remarks: Mediating between value antinomies instead of eliminating them
6 Via Parsons to Weber: From the theory of rationalization to the theory of interpenetration
6.1 Attempts at explaining modern occidental development: Theoretical retrogression
6.2 The frame of reference of action theory
6.3 Max Weber’s explanation of modern occidental development from the perspective of interpenetration
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Index of Names
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