Durkheim's

And, Béraud and Coulmont suggest, the pre-war tradition of Durkheim's sociology had exhausted itself; so reviving sociological research was not simply a matter of dusting off the ideas and methods of Durkheim and his followers in the 1920s and 1930s.

Archive 2009-04-01 Daniel Little 2009

And, Béraud and Coulmont suggest, the pre-war tradition of Durkheim's sociology had exhausted itself; so reviving sociological research was not simply a matter of dusting off the ideas and methods of Durkheim and his followers in the 1920s and 1930s.

French sociology as a distinctive tradition Daniel Little 2009

And this takes us some distance towards Durkheim's central view -- the autonomy of social facts.

Arguments for social holism Daniel Little 2008

In Durkheim's case there is an implicit contrast between a pre-modern world in which individuals have a well-defined social and moral place and the contemporary world in which these strands of solidarity are breaking down.

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Durkheim's ideas about the social world seem to be in the background in the focus offered by Marc Bloch or Jacques Le Goff on this aspect of history's tapestry -- though the Annales approach seems to be more psychological than Durkheim would have preferred.

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Marx's theory of class, Durkheim's theory of anomie, Tocqueville's highlighting of civic associations -- these are all instances of an effort by a social theorist to formulate a concept and a set of correlative theories in terms of which to analyze the historically given.

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Note 66: Here I am referring to Durkheim's theory about the sacred and the profane.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

Durkheim's ideas about the social world seem to be in the background in the focus offered by Marc Bloch or Jacques Le Goff on this aspect of history's tapestry -- though the Annales approach seems to be more psychological than Durkheim would have preferred.

Mentalité? Daniel Little 2008

Our soldiers in Iraq are committing suicide at a record high, another deviant behavior that Durkheim's anomie predicts, and still W gets people to volunteer to go off Iraq.

The GOP is trying their ages old ploy of terrifying the US. 2008

Robert Putnam's work on trying to measure the changing density of civic involvement social capital is a different perspective on Durkheim's concept of solidarity.

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