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Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity

Mustafa Emirbayer (Editor), Ira J. Cohen (Series Editor)
ISBN: 978-0-631-21991-0
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336 pages
February 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Introduction.

Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity.

Mustafa Emirbayer.

Part I: Sociological Methodology:.

1. An Agenda for Sociology.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

Suicide.

Modern Selections:.

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.

Pierre Bourdieu.

Part II: A Topography of Modernity.

2. Social Structure and Collective Consciousness.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Division of Labor in Society.

On Institutional Analysis.

Modern Selections:.

Open Schools – Open Society?.

Basil Bernstein.

3. Culture and Symbolic Classification.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Primitive Classification.

Sociology and Philosophy.

Modern Selections.

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

Marc Block.

The Savage Mind.

Levi Strauss.

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

Mary Douglas.

Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance.

Kai Erikson.

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

Michel Foucault.

4. Collection Emotions and Ritual Process.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

Essays on Morals and Education.

Modern Selections:.

The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure.

Victor Turner.

On Face-Work.

Erving Goffman.

The Nature of Deference and Demeanor.

Erving Goffman.

Stratification, Emotional Energy, and Transient Emotions.

Randall Collins.

Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille.

William H. Sewell, Jr.

5. Individual and Collective Agency.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

The Evolution of Educational Thought.

Modern Selections:.

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.

Pierre Bourdieu.

Culture and Political Crisis: “Watergate” and Durkheimian Sociology.

Jeffrey C. Alexander.

Part III: The Institutional Order of Modern Societies.

Introduction.

6. The Modern State.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Division of Labor in Society.

On Institutional Analysis.

Professional Ethics and Civic Morals.

Modern Selections:.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks.

Antonio Gramsci.

Civil Religion in America.

Robert Bellah.

7. The Modern Economy.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Division of Labor in Society.

Socialism and Saint-Simon.

The Division of Labor in Society.

Modern Selections:.

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

James C. Scott.

The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics.

Amitai Etzioni.

8. Civil Society (1): Occupational Groups and Family.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

Suicide.

The Division of Labor in Society.

On Institutional Analysis.

Modern Selections:.

To Empower People: From State to Civil Society.

Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus.

9. Civil Society (2): Education.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

Education and Sociology.

Moral Education.

The Evolution of Educational Thought.

Modern Selections:.

The School Class as a Social System: Some of Its Functions in American Society.

Talcott Parsons.

Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom: bell hooks.

Part IV: Morality and Modernity.

10. Individuality and Autonomy.

Introduction.

Durkheim Selections:.

The Division of Labor in Society.

Suicide.

Moral Education.

Sociology and Philosophy.

On Morality and Society.

Modern Selections:.

The Nature of Deference and Demeanor.

Erving Goffman.

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

Viviana Zelizer.

Appendix: Dourheim's Methodological Manifesto:.

The Rules of Sociological Method.

Emile Durkheim.

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