Émile Durkheim

John A. Spaulding

George Simpson

A classic book about the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists. Emile Durkheim’s Suicide addresses the phenomenon of suicide and its social causes. Written by one of the world’s most influential sociologists, this classic argues that suicide primarily results from a lack of integration of the individual into society. Suicide provides readers with an understanding of the impetus for suicide and its psychological impact on the victim, family, and society.

Suicide

The need and capacity of men and women to relate socially lies at the heart of Durkheim's exploration, in which religion embodies the beliefs that shape our moral universe."--BOOK JACKET.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

W. D. Halls

In this momentous challenge to the economic theories of Adam Smith and Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim presents a visionary reconception of the social structures for production and allocation that are the cornerstones of capitalism. He asks how individuality can be retained within the capitalist system. He argues that class conflict is not inherent in a capitalistic society as Marx contended, but that the unfettered growth of state power would lead to the extinction of individuality. He suggests that only in a free society that promotes voluntary bonds between its members can individuality prosper.

The Division of Labor in Society

Steven Lukes

First published in 1895: Emile Durkheim’s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology—now with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes. The Rules of the Sociological Method is among the most important contributions to the field of sociology, still debated among scholars today. Through letters, arguments, and commentaries on significant debates, Durkheim confronted critics, clarified his own position, and defended the objective scientific method he applied to his study of humans. This updated edition offers an introduction and extra notes as well as a new translation to improve the clarity and accessibility of this essential work. In the introduction, Steven Lukes, author of the definitive biography Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work, spells out Durkheim’s intentions, shows the limits of Durkheim’s view of sociology, and presents its political background and significance. Making use of the various texts in this volume and Durkheim’s later work, Lukes discusses how Durkheim’s methodology was modified or disregarded in practice—and how it is still relevant today. With substantial notes on context, this user-friendly edition will greatly ease the task of students and scholars working with Durkheim’s method—a view that has been a focal point of sociology since its original publication. The Rules of the Sociological Method will engage a new generation of readers with Durkheim’s rich contribution to the field.

Rules of Sociological Method

Selections from Durkheim's writings focus on the nature of his conception of society and its moral context

Emile Durkheim on Morality and Society

التربية الأخلاقية

قواعد المنهج فى علم الاجتماع

"Une religion est un système de croyances et de pratiques relatives à des choses sacrées, croyances et pratiques qui unissent en une même communauté morale, appelée Eglise, tous ceux qui y adhèrent. Le second élément qui prend ainsi place dans notre définition n'est pas moins essentiel que le premier ; car en montrant que l'idée de religion est inséparable de l'idée d'Eglise, il fait pressentir que la religion doit être une chose éminemment collective."

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Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse

Toute valeur suppose l’appréciation d’un sujet, en rapport défini avec une sensibilité déterminée. Ce qui a de la valeur est bon à quelque titre ; ce qui est bon est désirable ; tout désir est un état intérieur. Et pourtant les valeurs dont il vient d’être question ont la même objectivité que des choses. Comment ces deux caractères, qui, au premier abord, semblent contradictoires, peuvent-ils se concilier ? Comment un état de sentiment peut-il être indépendant du sujet qui l’éprouve ? Pour nombre de penseurs, qui se recrutent, d’ailleurs, dans des milieux assez hétérogènes, la différence entre les jugements est purement apparente. La valeur, dit-on, tient essentiellement à quelque caractère constitutif de la chose à laquelle elle est attribuée, et le jugement de valeur ne ferait qu’exprimer la manière dont ce caractère agit sur le sujet qui juge. Si cette action est favorable, la valeur est positive ; elle est négative, dans le cas contraire. Si la vie a de la valeur pour l’homme, c’est que l’homme est un être vivant et qu’il est dans la nature du vivant de vivre. Si le blé a de la valeur, c’est qu’il sert à l’alimentation et entretient la vie. Si la justice est une vertu, c’est parce qu’elle respecte les nécessités vitales ; l’homicide est un crime pour la raison opposée. En somme, la valeur d’une chose serait simplement la constatation des effets qu’elle produit en raison de ses propriétés intrinsèques. Mais quel est le sujet par rapport auquel la valeur des choses est et doit être estimée ? Sera-ce l’individu ? Comment expliquer alors qu’il puisse exister un système de valeurs objectives, reconnues par tous les hommes, au moins par tous les hommes d’une même civilisation ? A travers cet exposé, Emile Durkheim s’est proposé de montrer comment la sociologie peut aider à résoudre un problème philosophique...

Détermination du fait moral

Jugements de valeur et jugements de réalité

Lewis Coser

The Division of Labour in Society (Contemporary Social Theory)

Luz Cary

Margarida Garrido

J. Vasconcelos Esteves

Cristina Ferreira de Almeida

O que haverá, pensaremos, de mais íntimo e individual, de menos colectivo, que a morte voluntária de alguém? Contudo, é possível fazer um estudo sociológico do suicídio - quais são os laços, ténues ou sólidos, que unem um suicida ao seu grupo? Que significam as estatísticas (do tempo em que Durkheim escrevia o seu livro) demonstrativas de que os católicos se suicidam menos frequentemente que os protestantes, os homens casados menos frequentemente que os celibatários, etc.?

O Suicídio: Estudo Sociológico

في تقسيم العمل الاجتماعي

Jean-Michel Berthelot

Les faits sociaux doivent être traités comme des choses. Avec cette affirmation polémique, E. Durkheim orientait de manière décisive une discipline en voie de constitution, que cet ouvrage a contribué plus que tout autre à asseoir sur des fondements solides. A la fois programme et illustration, le livre est devenu un grand texte classique. L'ouvrage a connu deux éditions : 1894 (" La revue de Philosophie ") et 1895. Nous avons donné les variantes, peu nombreuses mais fort intéressantes, des deux éditions. Jean Michel Berthelot, qui enseigne la sociologie à l'Université de Toulouse, précise dans une longue préface les conditions de rédaction de ce texte et sa signification philosophique, politique et épistémologique.

Les règles de la méthode sociologique

Nesta obra Durkheim estabelece os métodos sociológicos e suas principais regras com que estudou os fenômenos sociais, estabelecendo os objetivos e objetos desta ciência. É uma obra clássica, de leitura extremamente proveitosa ao interessado em compreender os estudos sociais, e por eles, a sociedade em que vivemos.

As regras do método sociológico

Självmordet

Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family. Durkheim's focus on social solidarity convinced him that sociology must investigate the way that individual behavior itself is the product of social forces. As these writings make clear, Durkheim pursued his powerful model of sociology through many fields, eventually synthesizing both materialist and idealist viewpoints into his functionalist model of society.

Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis

"In 1893, a young doctoral student was to publish an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society studies the nature of social solidarity and explores the ties that bind one person to the next in order to hold society together. This revised and updated second edition fluently conveys original arguments for contemporary readers. Leading Durkheim scholar Steve Lukes's new introduction builds upon Lewis Coser's original -- which places the work in its intellectual and historical context and pinpoints its central ideas and arguments -- by focusing on the text's significance for how we ought to think sociologically about some central problems that face us today."--back cover.

This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim's writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. Dr Giddens takes his selections from a wide variety of sources and includes a number of items from untranslated writings in the Revue Philosophique, Annee Sociologique and from L'evolution pedagogue en France. Selections from previously translated writings have been checked against the originals and amended or re-translated where necessary. Dr Giddens arranges his selections thematically rather than chronologically. However, extracts from all phases of Durkheim's intellectual career are represented, giving the date of their first publication, which makes the evolution of his thought easily traceable. In his introduction Dr Giddens discusses phases in the interpretation of Durkheim's thought, as well as the main themes in his work, with an analysis of the effects of his thinking on modern sociology. The book is for students at any level taking courses in sociology, social anthropology and social theory in which Durkheim is one of the major writers studied.

Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings

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Le suicide

" a ideia de religião é inseparável da ideia de Igreja, ela permite entrever que a religião deve ser algo eminentemente coletivo" Lançada em 1912, As formas elementares da vida religiosa foi a última obra publicada em vida por Durkheim. Considerada por muitos sua obra-prima, permanece leitura indispensável nos cursos de ciências sociais. Ela inaugura a sociologia da religião, um campo de investigação dos fenômenos religiosos que traz um novo olhar aos processos de integração social à luz da religião. Para Durkheim, a religião é um dos pilares essenciais da sociedade, consistindo em um sistema solidário de crenças e práticas relativas ao sagrado, que reúne seus praticantes em uma mesma comunidade moral denominada Igreja. Nas palavras dos tradutores, "ao mergulhar no coração da vida religiosa, Durkheim nos oferece um intrigante ponto de partida para investigar os múltiplos domínios que instituem e são instituídos pela vida coletiva". Esta tradução para o português foi realizada a partir da edição francesa original de 1912: a única versão efetivamente controlada pelo autor.

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