Böcker i Routledge Revivals: Emile Durkheim: Selected Writings in Social Theory-serien

A collection of three essays that presents the thesis that society is both a dynamic system and the seat of moral life. It provides an insight into Durkeheimian thought on sociological and philosophical matters.

Claims that the individual mind is capable of classification and they seek the origin of the 'classificatory function' in society. This title argues that the mode of classification is determined by the form of society and that the notions of space, time, hierarchy, number, class and other such cognitive categories are products of society.

Contains Durkheim's presentation of Saint-Simon's ideas, their sources and their development.

Includes sociological works such as: "Sociology and Philosophy", which first appeared in English in 1953; the hugely influential "Socialism and Saint-Simon", first published in English in 1959; and "Primitive Classification", whose first English publication was in 1969.