Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 21, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780521838160
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Western philosophy; History & Surveys - General; Durkheimian school of sociology; Philosophy; Sociology - General; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Durkheimian school of sociolog; 1858-1917; Durkheim, Emile,; France; History; Sociology
First sentence: Around the turn of the twentieth century, Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) and Marcel Mauss (1872-1950) proposed that the most basic categories of thought, including space, time, class, and causality, are social in character.