Kenneth Smith

Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society (eBook, PDF)

A Study in Criminology

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Produktbeschreibung

'Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology' challenges conventional thinking on the use of Durkheim's key concept of the 'collective consciousness of society', and represents the first ever book-length treatment of this underexplored topic. Operating from both a criminological and sociological perspective, Kenneth Smith argues that Durkheim's original concept must be sensitively revised and updated for its real relevance to come to the fore.

This study puts forward three major adjustments to Durkheim's concept of the collective consciousness. It complicates the idea that the common and collective consciousness are interchangeable terms for the same phenomenon; it refutes the 'disciplinary' function of society as part of the concept of the common or collective consciousness; and it reveals the illusiveness of the supposed universal set of equally held ideas in a society, underlining the importance of geographical and generational variation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783082384
• Artikelnr.: 44457247

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Smith is Reader in Criminology and Sociology at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK and the author of 'A Guide to Marx's "Capital" Vols I-III' (2012), also published by Anthem Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Erewhon
Introduction
Part I: The Concept of the Collective Consciousness of Society
1. Durkheim on the Collective Consciousness in 'Moral Education'
2. Durkheim's Other Writings on the Concept of the Collective Consciousness
3. Collective Consciousness, Common Consciousness, Collective Conscience or Conscience Collective?
Part II: The Form of the Collective Consciousness
4. The Form that the Collective Consciousness(es) of Society Takes in a Late-Industrial Society: I. Macro-sociological or 'General' Characteristics
5. The State as the 'Organ' of the Common Consciousness
6. 'The Rule-of-Law': A Case Study
7. The Form that the Collective Consciousness Takes in Early Twenty-First Century Britain: II. Micro-sociological, Individual or Small-Scale Factors
Part III: Durkheim on Crime and Punishment
8. Durkheim on Crime and Punishment in 'The Division of Labour in Society'
9. Durkheim on Crime and Punishment in 'The Rules of Sociological Method'
10. Interregnum on 'Suicide' (1897)
11. Durkheim's Undeservedly Famous 'Two Laws of Penal Evolution' Essay (1901)
12. Durkheim on Crime and Punishment in 'Moral Education' (1902-03)
Part IV: Social Factor Social Phenomenon? Durkheim's Concept of the Collective Consciousness as a 'Social Fact'
13. What Does Durkheim Mean by the Concept of the 'Social' and What Does He Mean by the Concept of a 'Fact'?
14. Social Facts or Social Phenomena?
15. Social Facts and Sociology
16. Social Facts as Living Things
Part V: Some Problems with Durkheim's Concept of the Common and Collective Consciousness
17. Interdependence and the Division of Labour in Society
18. Durkheim on Socialism
19. Professional Ethics
20. Individualism, Durkheim and the Dreyfus Affair
Conclusion
Appendix: On Paying a Debt to Society
Notes
References
Index