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The Social Thought of Emile Durkheim
Alexander T. Riley
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Description for The Social Thought of Emile Durkheim
Paperback. A concise introduction to the writings, life, and influences of Emile Durkheim - one of the 'founding fathers' of sociology. Series: Social Thinkers Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 382.
This new volume of the SAGE Social Thinkers series provides a concise introduction to the work, life, and influences of Émile Durkheim, one of the informal "holy trinity" of sociology’s founding thinkers, along with Weber and Marx. The author shows that Durkheim’s perspective is arguably the most properly sociological of the three. He thought through the nature of society, culture, and the complex relationship of the individual to the collective in a manner more concentrated and thorough than any of his contemporaries during the period when sociology was emerging as a discipline.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc
Condition
New
Series
Social Thinkers Series
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781452202631
SKU
V9781452202631
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About Alexander T. Riley
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 ... Read more
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