Emile Durkheim: Sociologist and Moralist
- ISBN-10
- 1134869010
- ISBN-13
- 9781134869015
- Series
- Emile Durkheim
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-09-02
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Stephen Turner
Description
International scholarship over the last twenty years has produced a new understanding of Emile Durkheim as a thinker. It has contributed to reassembling what, for Durkheim, was always a whole: a sociological selection on morals and moral activism. This volume presents an overview of Durkheim's thought and is representative of the best of contemporary Durkheim scholarship.
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