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Rules of Sociological Method：And Selected Texts on Sociology and its Methods

内容简介

ThisvolumecontainsthefirstEnglishtranslationofEmileDurkheim'sTheRulesofSociologicalMethodthatdoesjusticeintermsofaccuracyandelegancetotheoriginaltext.Italsobringstogetherhismoreinterestingsubsequentstatementsonthenatureandscopeofsociologyanditsmethod.Theytakevariousforms,includingcontributionstodebatesandlettersandshowhimconfrontingcriticsandseekingtoclarifyhispositions.Hissuccessiveexpositionsanddefencesareinstructive,invariousways.InparticulartheythrowlightonDurkheim'sandtheDurkheimians'project;theymakeclearwherethelimitsofsuchaconceptionofsociologyandsocialsciencelie;andtheysuggestwhatpartextra-scientificinterestsandobjectivesmayhaveplayedinitsveryconstitution.Thereare,inshort,atleastthreewaysofreadingTheRulesandtheseaccompanyingtexts:asanexpressionofDurkheim'savowedintentions;asexemplifyingthelimitsofhisviewofsociology;andasastudyinthepoliticsoftheorising.

作者简介

EmileDurkheim(1858–1917)wasaFrenchsociologist.Heformallyestablishedtheacademicdisciplineand,withKarlMarxandMaxWeber,iscommonlycitedastheprincipalarchitectofmodernsocialscienceandfatherofsociology.MuchofDurkheim'sworkwasconcernedwithhowsocietiescouldmaintaintheirintegrityandcoherenceinmodernity;anerainwhichtraditionalsocialandreligioustiesarenolongerassumed,andinwhichnewsocialinstitutionshavecomeintobeing.HisfirstmajorsociologicalworkwasTheDivisionofLaborinSociety(1893).In1895,hepublishedhisRulesoftheSociologicalMethodandsetupthefirstEuropeandepartmentofsociology,becomingFrance'sfirstprofessorofsociology.In1898,heestablishedthejournalL'AnnéeSociologique.

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