Matt Dawson, "The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies" (Routledge, 2023)
New Books in Sociology
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The Distinction Between Two Durkheims
The dominant position on Durkheim today is found in what's called the strong program of cultural sociology that many people might be familiar with. I think a lot of the work that's produced by that school is really valuable, but they tend to have two things which I disagree with. The first one is that they make a distinction between two Durkheims. And there's too much of a tendency to sort of dismiss the first Durkheim and say, well, we don't need to worry about any of this stuff. Just read elementary forms, you'll get the key Durkheim. And I don't agree with that. So I differentiate myself from the cultural programme. But
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