Rethinking Durkheim and his Tradition
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 16, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780521037952
Subjects: Social theory; Sociology - General; Philosophy / History, Criticism, Surveys; Social Science / Sociology / General; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy; Durkheimian school of sociology; 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.