Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods - Maryanski, Alexandra
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Maryanski marshals recent data from primatology, paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and neuroscience to argue for a new understanding of Durkheim. Unlike most scholars then (and now) Durkheim believed that humans are naturally individualistic so he turned his attention to how individualism could be overcome to forge strong communities, fostering macro-societal integration. The analysis of an elementary religion, he believed, would allow us to see first-hand the fundamentals of solidarity, built around various totems marking sacred forces, emotion-arousing rituals, and community. Maryanski's…mehr

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Maryanski marshals recent data from primatology, paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and neuroscience to argue for a new understanding of Durkheim. Unlike most scholars then (and now) Durkheim believed that humans are naturally individualistic so he turned his attention to how individualism could be overcome to forge strong communities, fostering macro-societal integration. The analysis of an elementary religion, he believed, would allow us to see first-hand the fundamentals of solidarity, built around various totems marking sacred forces, emotion-arousing rituals, and community. Maryanski's unprecedented analysis confirms many of Durkheim's then untestable explanations, shedding new light on his relevance in the 21st century.
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Alexandra Maryanski is Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, Emerita Professor of Sociology at UCR, and a founding member of the Institute for Theoretical Social Science. She holds advanced degrees in anthropology, network analysis, and interdisciplinary social science. She has co-authored six books, Functionalism, The Social Cage, Incest: Origin of the Taboo, On the Evolution of Societies by Means of Natural Selection, Handbook on Evolution and Society, and The Emergence and Evolution of Religion. She has written dozens of research articles demonstrating the utility of network analysis, cladistics, and evolutionary theory in sociological analysis and has been at the forefront of two intellectual movements in sociology: evolutionary sociology and neurosociology.