Emile Durkheim sociologist of modernity

Selections of writings by and about Durkheim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance / Kai Erikson -- From Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison / Michel Foucault -- 4. Collective Emotions and Ritual Process -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -- From "A Discussion on Sex Education" -- Modern Selections -- From The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure / Victor Turner -- From "The Nature of Deference and Demeanor" / Erving Goffman -- From "On Face-Work" / Erving Goffman -- From "Stratification, Emotional Energy, and the Transient Emotions" / Randall Collins -- From "Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille" / William H. Sewell, Jr. -- 5. Individual and Collective Agency -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -- From The Evolution of Educational Thought -- Modern Selections -- From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste / Pierre Bourdieu --

From "Culture and Political Crisis: 'Watergate', and Durkheimian Sociology" / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- 6. The Modern State -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Division of Labor in Society -- From "Two Laws of Penal Evolution" -- From Professional Ethics and Civic Morals -- Modern Selections -- From Selections from the Prison Notebooks / Antonio Gramsci -- From "Civil Religion in America" / Robert Bellah -- 7. The Modern Economy -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Division of Labor in Society -- From Socialism and Saint-Simon -- From The Division of Labor in Society -- Modern Selections -- From The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia / James C. Scott -- From The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics / Amitai Etzioni -- 8. Civil Society (1): Occupational Groups and Family -- Durkheim Selections -- From Suicide -- From Preface to the Second Edition of The Division of Labor in Society --

From "Introduction to the Sociology of the Family" -- From "The Conjugal Family" -- Modern Selection -- From To Empower People: From State to Civil Society / Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus -- 9. Civil Society (2): Education -- Durkheim Selections -- From "Education: Its Nature and its Role" -- From Moral Education -- From The Evolution of Educational Thought -- Modern Selections -- From "The School Class as a Social System: Some of its Functions in American Society" / Talcott Parsons -- From Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom / Bell Hooks -- 10. Individuality and Autonomy -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Division of Labor in Society -- From Suicide -- From Moral Education -- From "The Determination of Moral Facts" -- From "The Dualism of Human Nature" -- From "Individualism and the Intellectuals" -- Modern Selections -- From "The Nature of Deference and Demeanor" / Erving Goffman --

From Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children / Viviana Zelizer -- App. Durkheim's Methodological Manifesto.

Introduction - Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity / Mustafa Emirbayer -- 1. An Agenda for Sociology -- Durkheim Selection -- From Suicide -- Modern Selection -- From Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste / Pierre Bourdieu -- 2. Social Structure and Collective Consciousness -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Division of Labor in Society -- "Note on Social Morphology" -- Modern Selection -- From "Open Schools - Open Society?" / Basil Bernstein -- 3. Culture and Symbolic Classification -- Durkheim Selections -- From The Elementary Forms of Religious Life -- From Primitive Classification (with Mauss) -- From "Individual and Collective Representations" -- Modern Selections -- From the Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France / Marc Bloch -- From The Savage Mind / Claude Levi-Strauss -- From Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo / Mary Douglas --