Emile Durkheim Sociologist of Modernity

by Emirbayer, Mustafa; Cohen, Ira J.

• ISBN13: 9780631219910
• ISBN10: 0631219919
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-04
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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	(18)
From Suicide	32	(18)
Modern Selection	50	(5)
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	(21)
From The Division of Labor in Society	58	(19)
``Note on Social Morphology''	77	(2)
Modern Selection	79	(4)
From ``Open Schools -- Open Society?''	79	(4)
Basil Bernstein
Culture and Symbolic Classification	83	(24)
Introduction	83	(1)
Durkheim Selections	84	(13)
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	(10)
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	(16)
From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life	109	(13)
From ``A Discussion on Sex Education''	122	(3)
Modern Selections	125	(14)
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	(16)
From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life	140	(2)
From The Evolution of Educational Thought	142	(14)
Modern Selections	156	(9)
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	(18)
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	(6)
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	(19)
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	(5)
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	(13)
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	(5)
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	(12)
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	(6)
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	(22)
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	(3)
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	(11)
From The Rules of Sociological Method	284	(11)
Index	295