Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-58093-0 (ISBN)
The first half of the book traces the key influences and events that led Durkheim to embrace such novel generalizations. The second part makes a significant contribution to sociological theory with an analysis that essentially "tests" Durkheim's core assumptions using cladistic analysis, social network tools and theory, and data on humans closest living relatives—the great apes. Maryanski marshals hard data from primatology, paleontology, archaeology, genetics, and neuroscience that enlightens and, surprisingly, confirms many of Durkheim’s speculations. These data show that integration among both humans and great apes is not so much group or kin oriented, per se, but orientation to a community standing outside each individual that includes a sense of self, but also encompassing a cognitive awareness of a "sense of community" or a connectedness that transcends sensory reality and concrete social relations. This "community complex," as Maryanski terms it, is what Durkheim was beginning to see, although he did not have the data to buttress his arguments as Maryanski is able to do.
Alexandra Maryanski is Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, Riverside, Emerita Professor of Sociology at UCR, and a founding member of the Institute for Theoretical Social Science. She holds advanced degrees in anthropology, network analysis, and interdisciplinary social science. She has co-authored six books, Functionalism, The Social Cage, Incest: Origin of the Taboo, On the Evolution of Societies by Means of Natural Selection, Handbook on Evolution and Society, and The Emergence and Evolution of Religion. She has written dozens of research articles demonstrating the utility of network analysis, cladistics, and evolutionary theory in sociological analysis and has been at the forefront of two intellectual movements in sociology: evolutionary sociology and neurosociology.
Foreword. Preface: Why Write Another Book on Durkheim? Chapter One: A Matter of Time. Chapter Two: Points of Departure. Chapter Three: Networks. Chapter Four: The Young Sociology Professor. Chapter Five: The Révélation. Chapter Six: W. Robertson Smith and the Scottish School of Totemism. Chapter Seven: A Turn to Religion. Chapter Eight: A Blueprint for Religion. Chapter Nine: Smashing Totemic Blows. Chapter Ten: The Great Totemic March. Chapter Eleven: Totemism: The Elementary Religion. Chapter Twelve: Under the Microscope. Chapter Thirteen: The Hominoid Social Legacy. Chapter Fourteen: A Sense of Community. Chapter Fifteen: The Hominoid Mind and the Self. Chapter Sixteen: The Community Effect. Chapter Seventeen: Secrets of the Totem. Bibliography. Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 589 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-58093-7 / 1138580937 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-58093-0 / 9781138580930 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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