Alexander T. Riley

The Social Thought of Emile Durkheim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A concise introduction to the writings, life, and influences of Emile Durkheim - one of the 'founding fathers' of sociology.

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Produktdetails

• Social Thinkers Series
• Verlag: SAGE Publications Inc
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: B02631P
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781452202631
• ISBN-10: 145220263X
• Artikelnr.: 39364788

Autorenporträt

Alexander Riley has written a good deal on Durkheim and from a fundamentally Durkheimian perspective on various topics over the past 15 years. These writings include his doctoral thesis at the University of California, San Diego ("In Pursuit of the Sacred: The Durkheimian Sociologists of Religion and the Modern Intellectual") and several of his books (Godless Intellectuals? The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented; Impure Play: Sacredness, Transgression, and the Tragic in Popular Culture; and the forthcoming Angel Patriots in the Sky: The Crash of United Flight 93 and the Myth of America). He is spending the academic year 2013 through 2014 in Paris on a Fulbright Research Grant, along with his wife, Esmeralda; their daughter, Valeria; and the family cat.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. David Emile Durkheim, Life and Times
Chapter 2. Moral Solidarity and the New Social Science: Durkheim¿s Study of
the Individual in Society and Society in the Individual
Chapter 3. Morality, Law, the State and Politics
Chapter 4. Establishing a Social Science
Chapter 5. Education as Social Science and Cultural Politics
Chapter 6. The "Revelation" of Religion
Chapter 7. Unfinished Business: La Morale, the Family, and the War
Chapter 8. Further Readings