This study provides a close textual analysis of Durkheimian sociology from the standpoint of critical structuralism. Durkheim's social ontology is analyzed as a sociologistic theory of reality riven by an apparent tension between social determinism and individualism. This tension is probed to reveal its ultimate resolution in an absolute social determinism. This sociologistic social determinism is then scrutinized, as a potential affinity beween Durkheimianism and structuralism. It is demonstrated that Durkheim's ontological social determinism, while absolute, is coextensive with an ontological collective subjectivism. The author concludes that Durkheim's socio-ontology is wholly incompatible with structuralist socio-ontology. Durkheim's epistemology is analyzed as a sociological theory of knowledge, engendering an apparent tension between social relativism and scientific rationalism. This tension is examined to reveal its ultimate resolution in an absolute scientific rationalism. This sociological scientific rationalism is then scrutinized as a potential affinity between Durkheimianism and structuralism. (Publisher)

Deconstructing Durkheim: A Post-Post-Structuralist Critique

Politics & Social Sciences

Lehmann, Jennifer M.

Social Sciences

Routledge

The author analyzes Durkheim's social theory from the standpoint of critical structuralism. She explores Durkheim's discussion of the relationship between the individual and society. She also addresses the question of Durkheim's understanding of the relationship between the subject and object of knowledge, and the relationship between truth and ideology.

Deconstructing Durkheim: A Post-Post Structuralist Critique

<p>This is the 16th volume in the series discussing a variety of topics in the field of current perspectives in social theory.</p>

Current Perspectives in Social Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 16)

Emerald Publishing Limited

Durkheim and Women is the first book-length work to present a feminist analysis of the theoretical writings of Emile Durkheim. Through a close textual reading of Durkheim’s widely scattered statements about women, Jennifer M. Lehmann reconstructs a coherent Durkheimian theory of women. She places Durkheim squarely in the swirling modernist controversies of his time and the equally bedeviling postmodernist controversies of ours.

Durkheim and Women

University Of Nebraska Press

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Deconstructing Durkheim: A Post-Post-Structuralist Critique

Deconstructing Durkheim: A Post-Post Structuralist Critique

Current Perspectives in Social Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 16)

Durkheim and Women