Philip Smith - Durkheim and After

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2 Front Matter Durkheim and After The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893–2020 Philip Smith polity

3 Preface and Acknowledgments

4 1 Durkheim’s Life and the Four Major Books About this Chapter, About this Book Early Life The Division of Labor in Society The Rules of Sociological Method Suicide Toward the Elementary Forms The Elementary Forms

5 2 Durkheim’s Other Works and the Contributions of His Students Durkheim’s Remaining Ideas and Works

6 3 Durkheimian Thought, 1917–1950 France British Structural Functionalism The United States

7 4 Through the Cultural Turn, 1950–1985 Parsons and Systems Theory Lévi-Strauss and Structuralism British Anthropology and Mary Douglas The United States: Empirical Studies in the Structural Functionalist Idiom

8 5 Into the Twenty-First Century: Durkheim Revived, 1985–2020 Jeffrey Alexander and the Strong Program Randall Collins and Interaction Ritual Other Durkheimian Work in Sociology in the United States

9 References

10 Index

11 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 1 Figure 1Durkheim and his schoolmates, Épinal, c.1874. Durkheim is standing second from t… Figure 2Durkheim and the class that entered the ENS in 1879. There is some uncertainty a… Figure 3Durkheim lecturing at the Sorbonne c.1911. The presence of notebooks suggests th… Figure 4Durkheim at the lectern c.1908. Note the characteristically intense expression. Figure 5Durkheim standing in his office c.1911. Clearly he was a precise dresser. The ph… Figure 6Durkheim working at his desk, Paris c.1911. This is a remarkable, informal image…

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Philip Smith

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All images reproduced courtesy of Davy, Georges. n.d. (c.1911). Émile Durkheim: choix de textes avec étude du système sociologique . Paris. Editions Louis-Michaud.

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Names: Smith, Philip (Philip Daniel), 1964- author.

Title: Durkheim and after : the Durkheimian tradition, 1893-2020 / Philip Smith.

Description: Cambridge ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “In this book, Philip Smith examines not only Émile Durkheim’s founding texts of sociology, but also reveals how he inspired more than a century of theoretical innovations, identifying the key paths, bridges, and dead ends -- as well as the tensions and resolutions -- in what has been a remarkably complex intellectual history”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019027623 (print) | LCCN 2019027624 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509518272 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509518289 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509518319 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917. | Durkheim, Émile, 1858-1917--Influence. | Durkheimian school of sociology. | Sociologists--France--Biography. | Sociology--History.

Classification: LCC HM479.D87 S54 2020 (print) | LCC HM479.D87 (ebook) | DDC 301.092 [B]--dc23

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