Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis

by Emile Durkheim, translated by Mark Traugott

University of Chicago Press, 1978
Cloth: 978-0-226-17330-6 | Paper: 978-0-226-17371-9 | Electronic: 978-0-226-01536-1
DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226015361.001.0001

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ABOUT THIS BOOKAUTHOR BIOGRAPHYTABLE OF CONTENTS

ABOUT THIS BOOK

Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family. Durkheim's focus on social solidarity convinced him that sociology must investigate the way that individual behavior itself is the product of social forces. As these writings make clear, Durkheim pursued his powerful model of sociology through many fields, eventually synthesizing both materialist and idealist viewpoints into his functionalist model of society.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Mark Traugott is professor of sociology and history at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Translations

Introduction

The Origins and Objectives of Sociology

1. Course in Sociology: Opening Lecture

2. Sociology and the Social Sciences

3. Note on Social Morphology

Reviews and Critical Analyses

4. Review of Albert Schaeffle, Bau und Leben des Sozialen Körpers: Erster Band

5. Review of Ferdinand Tönnies, Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft

6. Review of Antonio Labriola, Essais sur la conception matérialiste de l'histoire

7. Review of Gaston Richard, Le socialisme et la science sociale

8. Review of Marianne Weber, Ehefrau und Mutter in der Rechtsentwickelung

9. Review of Lucien Levy-Bruhl, Les Fonctions mentales dans les sociétés inférieures and Emile Durkheim, Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

Law, Crime,and Social Health

10. Two Laws of Penal Evolution

11. Crime and Social Health

The Science of Morality

12. Introduction to Morality

Sociology of the Family

13. Introduction to the Sociology of the Family

14. The Conjugal Family

15. Divorce by Mutual Consent

Notes

Index