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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780076203321

Autore

Jones Robert Alun

Titolo

The development of Durkheim's social realism / / Robert Alun Jones [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 1999

ISBN

1-107-11679-1

1-280-43249-7

0-511-17227-3

0-511-15039-3

0-511-31014-5

0-511-48881-5

0-511-05206-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 324 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Ideas in context ; ; 55

Disciplina

301/.09

Soggetti

Sociology - History

Sociology - Methodology

Realism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The reform that contained all other reforms -- The subtlety of things -- The perfection of personality -- A l'e;cole des choses -- The yoke of necessity.

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on the kind of historicist perspective encouraged by Quentin Skinner and Richard Rorty, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism. Durkheim argued that social facts should be studied as real, concrete things but Professor Jones argues that his social realism was less a sociological method than a way of speaking and thinking about social phenomena through which Durkheim hoped to secure the allegiance of French citizens to the Third Republic. Professor Jones's book, based on many years' research in this area, takes advantage for the first time of newly discovered lecture notes from Durkheim's philosophy class of 1883-4 and explores the significance of German social science in Durkheim's thought. The



Development of Durkheim's Social Realism will be of immense value to graduate students and scholars in sociology, social theory, social and political philosophy and history of ideas.