Research Catalog

Title

Emile Durkheim, his life and work : a historical and critical study / Steven Lukes.

Author

Lukes, Steven

Publication

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1985.

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Description

xvii, 676 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917
• Durkheimian school of sociology
• Sociologists > France > Biography

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• "Bibliography of Durkheim's publications": p. [561]-590.
• Bibliography: p. [591]-615.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: Youth: 1858-87. Childhood -- The École Normale Supérieure -- The new science of sociology -- Visit to Germany -- Part two: Bordeaux: 1887-1902. Durkheim at Bordeaux -- The theory and practice of education -- Social solidarity and the division of labour -- The family and kinship -- Suicide -- The method and subject-matter of sociology -- The sociology of religion-I -- The history of socialism -- The sociology of law and politics -- The history of sociology -- The Année sociologique -- The reception of Durkheim's ideas -- Socialism, the Dreyfus Affair and secular education -- Part three: Paris: 1902-17. Durkheim at the Sorbonne -- The history of education in France -- Durkheimian sociology: its context and relation to other disciplines -- The sociology of morality -- The sociology of knowledge -- The sociology of religion-II -- Pragmatism and sociology -- Durkheim and his critics -- Practical concerns -- The war.

ISBN

• 0804712824
• 0804712832 (paper)

LCCN

^^^85050791^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library