Emile Durkheim
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The French Sociologist Émile Durkheim is commonly cited as the principal architect of modern social science and father of sociology. Principle to the work of Durkheim was his concern with regard to how modernity was effecting traditional social and religious institutions, more specifically with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in an era in which new social institutions have come into being. One of his principles works, "The...
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Émile Durkheim is often referred to as the father of sociology. Along with Karl Marx and Max Weber he was a principal architect of modern social science and whose contribution helped established it as an academic discipline. "The Division of Labor in Society", published in 1893, was his first major contribution to the field and arguably one his most important. In this work Durkheim discusses the construction of social order in modern societies, which...
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El curso "Pragmatismo y sociología" que Durkheim le dedicó al análisis crítico de la filosofía pragmatista, dictado en París entre diciembre de 1913 y mayo de 1914 en la Universidad de la Sorbona, es quizás uno de los textos menos recorridos del sociólogo alsaciano, y al mismo tiempo posiblemente uno de los más ricos y sugestivos para valorar el alcance de las pretensiones de su obra sociológica.
Tras ser considerado irremediablemente...
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In this 1912 classic, a founder of modern sociology seeks the enduring source of human social identity. Émile Durkheim presents a remarkably accessible examination of animism, naturism, totemism, myth, and ritual. His intriguing views and ultimate conclusion-that the source of religion and morality lies in collective consciousness, rather than in individual minds-remains a topic of debate among sociologists, anthropologists, ethnographers, philosophers,...
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18 lectures by an influential theorist who discusses school as an appropriate setting for moral education. A pioneer of sociology, Durkheim explains the first element in fostering morality as the development of a sense of discipline, followed by a willingness to behave in accordance with collective interest, and a sense of autonomy.
6) El suicidio
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Una de las principales tesis que Émile Durkheim (1858-1917) defendía es que la realidad de la sociedad es algo separado de la realidad de los individuos, lo que motivó acusaciones de ensalzar a la sociedad como una entidad mítica superior al individuo y la asociación de su nombre con ideologías totalitarias. Una lectura atenta de El Suicidio, obra clásica dentro del campo de la sociología, pone en claro la injusticia de estas críticas, y...
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Extrait: "La conduite de l'Allemagne pendant la guerre dérive d'une certaine mentalité. - Le principal objet des éludes qui constituent notre collection est de dépeindre l'Allemagne telle que la guerre nous l'a révélée. Déjà nous avons parlé de son humeur agressive, de sa volonté belliqueuse, de son mépris du droit international et du droit des gens, de son inhumanité systématique, de ses cruautés réglementaires."
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