Emile Durkheim

Mustafa Emirbayer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has written widely on Durkheim, class analysis, and classical and contemporary social theory.

Introduction.Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity.Mustafa Emirbayer.Part I: Sociological Methodology:1. An Agenda for Sociology.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:Suicide.Modern Selections:Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.Pierre Bourdieu.Part II: A Topography of Modernity.2. Social Structure and Collective Consciousness.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Division of Labor in Society.On Institutional Analysis.Modern Selections:Open Schools - Open Society?Basil Bernstein.3. Culture and Symbolic Classification.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.Primitive Classification.Sociology and Philosophy.Modern Selections.The Royal Touch: Sacred Monarchy and Scrofula in England and France.Marc Block.The Savage Mind.Levi Strauss.Purity and Danger: An Analysis of the Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.Mary Douglas.Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance.Kai Erikson.Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.Michel Foucault.4. Collection Emotions and Ritual Process.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.Essays on Morals and Education.Modern Selections:The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure.Victor Turner.On Face-Work.Erving Goffman.The Nature of Deference and Demeanor.Erving Goffman.Stratification, Emotional Energy, and Transient Emotions.Randall Collins.Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: Inventing Revolution at the Bastille.William H. Sewell, Jr.5. Individual and Collective Agency.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Evolution of Educational Thought.Modern Selections:Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste.Pierre Bourdieu.Culture and Political Crisis: "Watergate" and Durkheimian Sociology.Jeffrey C. Alexander.Part III: The Institutional Order of Modern Societies.Introduction.6. The Modern State.Durkheim Selections:The Division of Labor in Society.On Institutional Analysis.Professional Ethics and Civic Morals.Modern Selections:Selections from the Prison Notebooks.Antonio Gramsci.Civil Religion in America.Robert Bellah.7. The Modern Economy.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Division of Labor in Society.Socialism and Saint-Simon.The Division of Labor in Society.Modern Selections:The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia.James C. Scott.The Moral Dimension: Toward a New Economics.Amitai Etzioni.8. Civil Society (1): Occupational Groups and Family.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:Suicide.The Division of Labor in Society.On Institutional Analysis.Modern Selections:To Empower People: From State to Civil Society.Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus.9. Civil Society (2): Education.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:Education and Sociology.Moral Education.The Evolution of Educational Thought.Modern Selections:The School Class as a Social System: Some of Its Functions in American Society.Talcott Parsons.Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom: bell hooks.Part IV: Morality and Modernity.10. Individuality and Autonomy.Introduction.Durkheim Selections:The Division of Labor in Society.Suicide.Moral Education.Sociology and Philosophy.On Morality and Society.Modern Selections:The Nature of Deference and Demeanor.Erving Goffman.Pricing the Priceless Child: The Changing Social Value of Children.Viviana Zelizer.Appendix: Dourheim's Methodological Manifesto:The Rules of Sociological Method.Emile Durkheim.