Autore: Warfield Rawls, Anne
Titolo: Durkheim's epistemology. Continuities between The Elementary Forms and The Division
Periodico: Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa
Anno: 2012 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 335 - Pagina finale: 364

The later work of Emile Durkheim is usually treated as though it were very differentfrom his early work. The alleged difference is often referred to as representing twoentirely different Durkheim's: The Two Durkheim Hypothesis. This paper arguesthat there are strong elements of continuity between Durkheim's last work in TheElementary Forms of the Religious Life (1912) and his earliest work in The Divisionof Social Labor (1893). Misinterpretations of Durkheim's work have often resultedfrom treating the early work as a kind of structural functionalist argument: whichit was not - and the later work as a sociology of knowledge which it was onlyin part. The Elementary Forms completed an argument that was initiated in TheDivision nineteen years earlier that constitutive practices would become the meansfor creating coherence in modern differentiated societies. Durkheim's later work continued to explore this idea and to compare and contrast the means for creatingand maintaining coherences in modern and traditional societies.




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