Emile Durkheim : Sociologist of Modernity

This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of contemporary sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary readings by social thinkers of today, connecting the classic writings of Durkheim to contemporary issues. Organizes Durkheim's writings thematically, in a comprehensive collection Includes selections from Durkheim's best-known writings as well as less widely-known texts that explore the themes of modern sociology Contains secondary readings by key contemporary social thinkers today. Connects the classic writings of Durkheim to contemporary issues. Includes a substantial editorial introduction by a leading Durkheim scholar.

Mustafa Emirbayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written widely on Durkheim and on classical and contemporary social theory.

General Editor's Foreword

ix

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction -- Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity

1

(28)

Mustafa Emirbayer

Part I Sociological Methodology

29

(26)

An Agenda for Sociology

31

(24)

Introduction

31

(1)

Durkheim Selection

32

(1)

From Suicide

32

(18)

Modern Selection

50

(1)

From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

50

(5)

Pierre Bourdieu

Part II A Topography of Modernity

55

(110)

Social Structure and Collective Consciousness

57

(26)

Introduction

57

(1)

Durkheim Selections

58

(1)

From the Division of Labor in Society

58

(19)

``Note on Social Morphology''

77

(2)

Modern Selection

79

(1)

From ``Open Schools - Open Society?''

79

(4)

Basil Bernstein

Culture and Symbolic Classification

83

(24)

Introduction

83

(1)

Durkheim Selections

84

(1)

From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

84

(7)

From Primitive Classification (with Mauss)

91

(3)

From ``Individual and Collective Representations''

94

(3)

Modern Selections

97

(1)

From The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France

97

(2)

Marc Bloch

From The Savage Mind

99

(2)

Claude Levi-Strauss

From Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

101

(2)

Mary Douglas

From Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance

103

(2)

Kai Erikson

From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

105

(2)

Michel Foucault

Collective Emotions and Ritual Process

107

(32)

Introduction

107

(2)

Durkheim Selections

109

(1)

From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

109

(13)

From ``A Discussion on Sex Education''

122

(3)

Modern Selections

125

(1)

From The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure

125

(1)

Victor Turner

From ``The Nature of Deference and Demeanor''

126

(2)

Erving Goffman

From ``On Face-Work''

128

(1)

Erving Goffman

From ``Stratification, Emotional Energy, and the Transient Emotions''

129

(5)

Randall Collins

From ``Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille''

134

(5)

William H. Sewell, Jr.

Individual and Collective Agency

139

(26)

Introduction

139

(1)

Durkheim Selections

140

(1)

From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

140

(2)

From The Evolution of Educational Thought

142

(14)

Modern Selections

156

(1)

From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste

156

(2)

Pierre Bourdieu

From ``Culture and Political Crisis: 'Watergate' and Durkheimian Sociology''

158

(7)

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Part III The Institutional Order of Modern Societies

165

(90)

The Modern State

167

(25)

Introduction

167

(1)

Durkheim Selections

168

(1)

From The Division of Labor in Society

168

(3)

From ``Two Laws of Penal Evolution''

171

(1)

From Professional Ethics and Civic Morals

172

(14)

Modern Selections

186

(1)

From Selections from the Prison Notebooks

186

(2)

Antonio Gramsci

From ``Civil Religion in America''

188

(4)

Robert Bellah

The Modern Economy

192

(25)

Introduction

192

(1)

Durkheim Selections

193

(1)

From The Division of Labor in Society

193

(2)

From Socialism and Saint-Simon

195

(7)

From The Division of Labor in Society

202

(10)

Modern Selections

212

(1)

From The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia

212

(2)

James C. Scott

From The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics

214

(3)

Amitai Etzioni

Civil Society (1): Occupational Groups and Family

217

(19)

Introduction

217

(1)

Durkheim Selections

218

(1)

From Suicide

218

(2)

From Preface to the Second Edition of The Division of Labor in Society

220

(6)

From ``Introduction to the Sociology of the Family''

226

(1)

From ``The Conjugal Family''

226

(5)

Modern Selection

231

(1)

From To Empower People: From State to Civil Society

231

(5)

Peter L. Berger

Richard John Neuhaus

Civil Society (2): Education

236

(19)

Introduction

236

(1)

Durkheim Selections

237

(1)

From ``Education: Its Nature and its Role''

237

(6)

From Moral Education

243

(2)

From The Evolution of Educational Thought

245

(4)

Modern Selections

249

(1)

From ``The School Class as a Social System: Some of its Functions in American Society''

249

(3)

Talcott Parsons

From Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

252

(3)

bell hooks

Part IV Morality and Modernity

255

(28)

Individuality and Autonomy

257

(26)

Introduction

257

(1)

Durkheim Selections

258

(1)

From The Division of Labor in Society

258

(5)

From Suicide

263

(5)

From Moral Education

268

(3)

From ``The Determination of Moral Facts''

271

(1)

From ``The Dualism of Human Nature''

272

(2)

From ``Individualism and the Intellectuals''

274

(6)

Modern Selections

280

(1)

From ``The Nature of Deference and Demeanor''

280

(1)

Erving Goffman

From Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children

281

(2)

Viviana Zelizer

Appendix -- Durkheim's Methodological Manifesto

283

(12)

Introduction

283

(1)

Durkheim Selections

284

(1)

From The Rules of Sociological Method

284

(11)

Index

295

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