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This book offers a reassessment of the work of Emile Durkheim in the context of a French philosophical tradition that had seriously misinterpreted Kant by interpreting his theory of the categories as psychological faculties. Durkheim's sociological theory of the categories, as revealed by Warren Schmaus, is an attempt to provide an alternative way of understanding Kant. For Durkheim the categories are necessary conditions for human society. The concepts of causality, space and time underpin the moral rules and obligations that make society possible. A particularly interesting feature of this book is its transcendence of the distinction between intellectual and social history by placing Durkheim's work in the context of the French educational establishment of the Third Republic. It does this by subjecting student notes and philosophy textbooks to the same sort of critical analysis typically applied only to the classics of philosophy.

Durkheimian school of sociology. --- Sociology --- History. --- Durkheim, Émile, --- Durkheimian school of sociology --- French sociologists (Durkheimian school) --- Schools of sociology --- History --- Durkheim, Emile, --- Tʻu-erh-kan, --- Di︠u︡rkem, E., --- Durkheim, David Émile, --- Di︠u︡rkgeĭm, Ėmilʹ, --- Dyurukēmu, Emīru, --- Durkheim, Emilio, --- Dirkem, Emil, --- Arts and Humanities --- Philosophy --- Sociology - History. --- Sociology - France - History. --- Durkheim, Émile, - 1858-1917

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In this original and controversial book Professor Rawls argues that Durkheim's The Elementary Forms of Religious Life is the crowning achievement of his sociological endeavour and that since its publication in English in 1915 it has been consistently misunderstood. Rather than a work on primitive religion or the sociology of knowledge, Rawls asserts that it is an attempt by Durkheim to establish a unique epistemological basis for the study of sociology and moral relations. By privileging social practice over beliefs and ideas, it avoids the dilemmas inherent in philosophical approaches to knowledge and morality that are based on individualism and the tendency to privilege beliefs and ideas over practices, both tendencies that dominate western thought. Based on detailed textual analysis of the primary text, this book will be an important and original contribution to contemporary debates on social theory and philosophy.

Religion. --- Totemism. --- Religion --- Totémisme --- Durkheim, Emile, --- Totemism --- Totémisme --- Endogamy and exogamy --- Ethnology --- Mythology --- Taboo --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Durkheim, Émile, --- Social Sciences --- Sociology --- Durkheim, Emile, - 1858-1917. - Formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

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In this concise and engaging work, Patricia Cormack investigates the broad cultural significance and relevance of academic sociology by examining its on-going relationship with modernity and mass culture. She bids us, rather than deny sociology's participation in culture, to see the discipline as informing ethical, epistemological and pedagogical questions. Through an examination of the writings of Emile Durkheim, C. Wright Mills and Jean Baudrillard, Cormack illustrates how their formulations of sociology as a cultural practice is rooted in the very mass culture that it studies.Central to the argument is a discussion of conceptual and rhetorical devices - "totems" and "tropes" - within social theory. In agreement with the three theorist subjects, Cormack posits that the social is a discursive artifact, becoming over time a "social fact", explaining and sustaining ordinary life. Durkheim treats the 19th century birth of sociology (in which he played a large part), as an intrinsic aspect of modern cultural consciousness. Mills advances this view further, treating the "Sociological Imagination" as part of and informing, mass culture. Baudrillard treats sociological reason as now equivalent to and inextricable from commonsense understandings of the culture it seeks to understand - rendering the sociological project essentially mute.Of value to social scientists, and theorists in particular, this is a specialized volume - a sociology of sociology - written at senior undergraduate or graduate level. It is intended as textually oriented ethnography, and thus presents a theoretical rather than empirical investigation of the relationship between sociology and culture.

Sociology --- Mass society. --- Philosophy. --- Baudrillard, Jean, --- Durkheim, Émile, --- Mills, C. Wright --- Mills, Charles Wright, --- Mills, Raĭt, --- Mills, Charles Wright --- Mīlz, Chārlz Rāīt, --- مياز, چاراز رايت, --- Tʻu-erh-kan, --- Di︠u︡rkem, E., --- Durkheim, David Émile, --- Di︠u︡rkgeĭm, Ėmilʹ, --- Dyurukēmu, Emīru, --- Durkheim, Emilio, --- Social history --- History. --- Durkheim, Emile, --- Baudrillard, Jean. --- Sociologie --- Société de masse --- Philosophy --- Philosophie --- Société de masse. --- Philosophie. --- Dirkem, Emil,

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Seminal thinkers of the nineteenth century - Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud - all predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. The belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. During the last decade, however, the secularization thesis has experienced the most sustained challenge in its long history. The traditional secularization thesis needs updating. Religion has not disappeared and is unlikely to do so. Nevertheless, the concept of secularization captures an important part of what is going on. This book develops a theory of secularization and existential security. Sacred and Secular is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, international relations, and cultural change.

Religion and politics --- Secularism --- #SBIB:044.AANKOOP --- #SBIB:316.331H330 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- #SBIB:324H60 --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religion --- Religions --- Ethics --- Irreligion --- Utilitarianism --- Atheism --- Postsecularism --- Secularization (Theology) --- Godsdienst en politiek: algemeen --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Politieke socialisatie --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- #A0511PSA --- Sociology of religion --- Political systems --- Religion and politics. --- Secularism. --- Religion et politique --- Sociologie van de godsdienst --- Politieke systemen --- Social Sciences --- Political Science