Deconstructing Durkheim : a post-post-structuralist critique
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Deconstructing Durkheim : a post-post-structuralist critique
Routledge, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [259]-263
Bibliography of Durkheim's works: p. [264]-265
Includes index
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ISBN 9780415070393
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This study provides a close textual analysis of Durkheimian sociology from the standpoint of critical structuralism. Durkheim's social ontology is analyzed as a sociologistic theory of reality riven by an apparent tension between social determinism and individualism. This tension is probed to reveal its ultimate resolution in an absolute social determinism. This sociologistic social determinism is then scrutinized, as a potential affinity beween Durkheimianism and structuralism. It is demonstrated that Durkheim's ontological social determinism, while absolute, is coextensive with an ontological collective subjectivism. The author concludes that Durkheim's socio-ontology is wholly incompatible with structuralist socio-ontology. Durkheim's epistemology is analyzed as a sociological theory of knowledge, engendering an apparent tension between social relativism and scientific rationalism. This tension is examined to reveal its ultimate resolution in an absolute scientific rationalism. This sociological scientific rationalism is then scrutinized as a potential affinity between Durkheimianism and structuralism.
Table of Contents
Part I: Durkheim's Social Ontology 1. The "Structure" of Individuals 2. The Social Determination of "Individuals" 3. The "Individualism" of Durkheim Part II: 4. Ideology and Truth: Individual and Collective Knowledge 5. Collective Ideology 6. Collective Truth.
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pbk. ISBN 9780415123747
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The author analyzes Durkheim's social theory from the standpoint of critical structuralism. She explores Durkheim's discussion of the relationship between the individual and society. She also addresses the question of Durkheim's understanding of the relationship between the subject and object of knowledge, and the relationship between truth and ideology.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Durkheim's Social Ontology 1. The `Structure' of Individuals 2. The Social Determination of `Individuals' 3. The Individualism of Durkheim Part II: 4. Ideology and Truth: Individual and Collective Knowledge 5. Collective Ideology 6. Collective Truth
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