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Emile Durkheim: an introduction to four major works
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ISBN: 0803923341 0803923333 9780803923331 9780803923348 Year: 1986 Volume: 2 Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. Sage

Research in sociology of knowledge, sciences and art : a annual compilation of research
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ISBN: 0892320265 9780892320264 Year: 1978 Publisher: Greenwich (Conn.) : Jai press,

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The Secret of the Totem
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ISBN: 023113438X 0231508778 9780231508773 9780231134385 Year: 2005 Publisher: New York, NY

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Though it is now discredited, totemism once captured the imagination of Sigmund Freud, Émile Durkheim, James Frazer, and other prominent Victorian thinkers. In this lively intellectual history, Robert Alun Jones considers the construction of a theory and the divergent ways religious scholars, anthropologists, psychoanalysts, and cultural theorists drew on totemism to explore and define primitive and modern societies' religious, cultural, and sexual norms. Combining innovative readings of individual scholars' work and a rich portrait of Victorian intellectual life, Jones brilliantly traces the rise and fall of a powerful idea. First used to describe the belief systems of Native American tribes, totemism ultimately encompassed a range of characteristics. Its features included belief in a guardian spirit that assumed the form of an a particular animal; a prohibition against marrying outside the clan combined with a powerful incest taboo; a sacrament in which members of the totemic clan slaughtered a representative of the totemic species; and the tracing of descent through the female rather than the male. These attributes struck a chord with the late Victorian mentality and its obsession with inappropriate sexual relations, evolutionary theory, and gender roles. Totemism represented a set of beliefs that, though utterly primitive and at a great evolutionary distance, reassured Victorians of their own more civilized values and practices. Totemism's attraction to Victorian thinkers reflects the ways in which the social sciences construct their objects of study rather than discovering them. In discussing works such as Freud's Totem and Taboo or Frazer's The Golden Bough, Jones considers how theorists used the vocabulary of totemism to suit their intellectual interests and goals. Ultimately, anthropologists such as A. A. Goldenweiser, Franz Boas, and Claude Lévi-Strauss argued that totemism was more a reflection of the concerns of Victorian theorists than of the actual practices and beliefs of "primitive" societies, and by the late twentieth century totemism seemed to have disappeared altogether.

The development of Durkheim's social realism
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ISBN: 0521650453 9780521650458 9780521022101 052102210X 9780511488818 1107116791 0511172273 0511150393 0511310145 0511488815 1280432497 0511052065 0511036833 9780511036835 9780511150395 0511007329 9780511007323 Year: 1999 Volume: 55 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press

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Drawing on the kind of historicist perspective encouraged by Quentin Skinner and Richard Rorty, this book explores the development of Durkheim's social realism. Durkheim argued that social facts should be studied as real, concrete things but Professor Jones argues that his social realism was less a sociological method than a way of speaking and thinking about social phenomena through which Durkheim hoped to secure the allegiance of French citizens to the Third Republic. Professor Jones's book, based on many years' research in this area, takes advantage for the first time of newly discovered lecture notes from Durkheim's philosophy class of 1883-4 and explores the significance of German social science in Durkheim's thought. The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism will be of immense value to graduate students and scholars in sociology, social theory, social and political philosophy and history of ideas.

Research in sociology of knowledge, sciences and art : a research annual
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ISBN: 0892321237 9780892321230 Year: 1979 Publisher: Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press,

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Current perspectives on the history of the social sciences
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ISBN: 0892322985 Year: 1983 Publisher: Greenwich (Conn.) : Jai press,

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Current perspectives on the history of the social sciences
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Year: 1983 Publisher: Greenwich, London JAI Press

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Durkheim's philosophy lectures
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ISBN: 9780511499302 9780521630665 9780521175425 9780511211478 0511211473 0521630665 0511215053 9780511215056 051121684X 9780511216848 0511499302 1280541016 9781280541018 0511211473 0521630665 0521175429 1107142490 0511315538 0511213247 9781107142497 9780511315534 9780511213243 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. New York Cambridge University Press

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Moving back and forth between the history of philosophy and the contributions of philosophers in his own day, Durkheim takes up topics as diverse as philosophical psychology, logic, ethics, and metaphysics, and seeks to articulate a unified philosophical position. Remarkably, in these lectures, given more than a decade before the publication of his groundbreaking book, The Division of Labour in Society (1893), the 'social realism' that is so characteristic of his later work - where he insists, famously, that social facts cannot be reduced to psychological or economic ones, and that such facts constrain human action in important ways - is totally absent in these early lectures. For this reason, they will be of special interest to students of the history of the social sciences, for they shed important light on the course of Durkheim's intellectual development.

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