Durkheim poses a major question: given the separation of the economy from society and increasing secularization, how can we find a morality which is relevant to the modern state? Durkheim argues that the answer is to be found in the evolution of professional codes and civic values, which contribute to a regulation of the economy as guilds had regulated medieval economic life. Arguing that the state has a vital role to play in regulating moral life - a controversial position which drew considerable criticism- Durkheim also argued that the state had a duty to protect the rights of the individual. Included in this Routledge Classics edition is a new introduction by Bryan S.Turner.
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'...one cannot help realizing that had the social sciences paid more attention to Durkheim half a century or so ago, a good many false steps might have been saved and we might be much further along than we are today. Even if his point of view in its entirety may not be acceptable, Durkheim had insights well ahead of his age.' Annual Review of Anthropology