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  • Emile Durkheim

    Selected Writings on Education

    Edited by W.S.F Pickering ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions
    Emile Durkheim is widely lauded as one of the founding fathers of modern Sociology and for his substantial contribution to the sociology of education. This set brings some of his most important writings on the subject together for the first time. ... Read more

    $240.00 USD

  • Durkheim's Suicide

    A Century of Research and Debate

    Edited by W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the use of statistics, explanation of suicide, anomie and religion and the morality of suicide. It will ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Durkheim and Modern Education

    Edited by W.S.F. Pickering, Geoffrey Walford ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
    This volume explores Durkheim's place in modern educational thought at three different levels: * Durkheim's ideas on education are analyzed and placed in the context of modern society * current educational issues are explored using a Durkheimian framework * Durkheim's thought is related to that of modern educational theorists to reveal his enduring influence In discussing Durkheim's modern ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • On Durkheim's Elementary Forms of Religious Life

    Edited by N.J. Allen, W.S.F. Pickering, W. Watts Miller ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    This is the first collection of essays to be published on Durkheim's masterpiece The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. It represents the work of the most important international Durkheim scholars from the fields of anthropology, philosophy and sociology. The essays focus on key topics including:* the method Durkheim adopted in his study* the role of ritual and belief in society* the nature of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Sociological Ambition

    Elementary Forms of Social and Moral Life

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    The Care of the Self

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