The social thought of Émile Durkheim / Alexander Riley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The social thought of émile durkheim-front cover; the social thought of émile durkheim; contents; series editor's foreword; acknowledgments; introduction; chapter 1: david émile durkheim, life and times; chapter 2: moral solidarity and the new social science: durkheim's study of the individual in society and society in the individual; chapter 3: morality, law, the state, and politics; chapter 4: establishing a social science; chapter 5: education as social science and cultural politics; chapter 6: the "revelation" of religion; chapter 7: unfinished business: la morale, the family, and the war.

This new volume of the SAGE Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of Émile Durkheim, one of the informal "holy trinity" of sociology's founding thinkers, along with Weber and Marx. The author shows that Durkheim's perspective is arguably the most properly sociological of the three. He thought through the nature of society, culture, and the complex relationship of the individual to the collective in a manner more concentrated and thorough than any of his contemporaries during the period when sociology was emerging as a.

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