Durkheim and After : The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020 (Paperback)

Preface and Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Durkheim’s Life and the Four Major Books
Situating Durkheim – early life and training - The Division of Labor - The Rules of Sociological Method – Suicide - the middle career phase - L'Année Sociologique - the Elementary Forms - death.

Chapter 2: Durkheim’s Other Works and the Contributions of His Students

The variety of outputs – individualism - socialism - ethics- the state – sex/gender/family/marriage- pragmatism –education - the body – punishment – classification – Mauss – Hertz – Hubert - other students in the Année team.

Chapter 3: Durkheimian Thought 1917-1950

France-the fate of Durkheim’s team - Mauss the gift and the body - Halbwachs and collective memory - Bataille and the Collège de Sociologie – England and structural functionalist anthropology – Radcliffe-Brown – Evans-Pritchard – the United States - Parsons - Merton.

Chapter 4: Through the Cultural Turn 1950-1985
Parsons and systems theory – the fall of Parsons – Germany – Lévi-Strauss – British anthropology - Mary Douglas – Durkheimian empirical sociology in the United States.

Chapter 5: Into the Twenty-First Century: Durkheim Revived

Durkheim neglected – the rise of cultural sociology in the United States – Jeffrey Alexander and the Strong Program – Randall Collins and interaction ritual – Other Durkheimian work in the United States – the Durkheimian Studies/Études Durkheimiennes Group - Germany – adaptations of Mary Douglas on grid/group – evolutionary psychology– the return of normative Durkheimian theory.

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