Durkheim, Emile

New York. 1980. Free Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Worn Dustjacket with Some Tears and a Small Hole in the Front Near the Top Edge Corner . 0029079802. Edited by Yash Nandan. Translated from the French by John French, Andrew P. Lyons, Yash Nandan, John Sweeney, and Kennerly Woody. 522 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Juanita Elefante Gordon. keywords: Sociology Philosophy. FROM THE PUBLISHER - L'Anne Sociologique was more than an annual report on new publications of interest to pioneer sociologists; it was a tool used by Emile Durkheim to build the French School of sociology, incorporating economics, history, law, and other divisions of the social sciences and humanities, to define the aims and methods of sociology. In the pages of L'AnnEe, a virtual encyclopedia of the sciences of its time, Durkheim established his viewpoint on new information, defended his work against its critics, taught his methods and ideas, and suggested topics for research. After completing his great work Le Suicide in 1897, Durkheim worked for more than fifteen years on L'Anne, turning out hundreds of reviews, notices, and introductory sections. Now Professor Yash Nandan has made this important work available for the first time in English - following for the first time in any edition Durkheim's own classifications - bringing to light Durkheim's use of this journal to propagate his ideas and his range of interests and his nurturing of a new sociology. From his perspective a contemporary Durkheim scholar, Professor Nandan provides an extensive introduction to the doctrines, organization, and growth of the Durkheim school, and the role L'AnnEe played in Durkheim's status as scholarch, founder, and inspiration of a new science of sociology. But L'AnnEe was more than a tool; it was meant to be a model of the new sociology. Just as Durkheim shaped categories of thought, these categories shaped L'Annee, which Nandan has kept intact to reveal Durkheim's thinking by their classification as well as by their content. Overall divisions include general sociology; juridic and moral sociology; and criminal sociology and statistics. Included are sections on concepts, methodologies, and substantive writings on social psychology, suicide, the family, marriage and divorce, law, the forms and functions of crime, and economic and aesthetic sociology. The scholarly effort that went into L'AnnEe was also meant as a model of social organization. Durkheim wrote to a friend in 1900 that the division of labor and cooperative effort among his team were unique and constituted the best way of stimulating a sociological activity. These early social scientists were anxious to learn from scholars in other fields as well as from each other. Their special interest lay in historical and ethnographic studies but their sociology - Durkheim's sociology - reached for data from books published in law, economics, and a remarkable diversity of disciplines. Durkheim himself learned from and influenced many of his contemporaries. Simmel, Westermarck, Tarde, Glotz, Steinmetz, FouillEe, Charles Lefebvre, Marianne Weber, and others were studied and critiqued in the pages of L'AnnEe. Making this seminal dialogue available to English-speaking readers is one of the most valuable contributions of Professor Nandan's edition. Emile Durkheim: Contributions to L 'Anne Sociologique firmly establishes Durkheim's importance as a major historical and humanistic scholar. just as it reveals his role in the development of modern sociology. It will be indispensable for students of intellectual history and sociological theory, social historians, and historical sociologists, and a fascinating new source for anyone interested in Emile Durkheim and his accomplishments. inventory #43360 ISBN: 0029079802.