Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society

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CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Part I THE CONCEPT OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOCIETY

PREFACE TO PART I

INTRODUCTION TO PART I

1. DURKHEIM ON THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS IN MORAL EDUCATION

2. DURKHEIM’S OTHER WRITINGS ON THE CONCEPT OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

3. COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS, COMMON CONSCIOUSNESS, COLLECTIVE CONSCIENCE OR CONSCIENCE COLLECTIVE?

CONCLUSION TO PART I

Part II THE FORM OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

PREFACE TO PART II

INTRODUCTION TO PART II: THE CONDITIONS OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SOCIETY

4. THE FORM THAT THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS(ES) OF SOCIETY TAKES IN A LATE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: I. MACRO-SOCIOLOGICAL OR ‘GENERAL’ CHARACTERISTICS

5. THE STATE AS THE ‘ORGAN’ OF THE COMMON CONSCIOUSNESS

6. ‘THE RULE-OF-LAW’: A CASE STUDY

7. THE FORM THAT THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS TAKES IN EARLY TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BRITAIN: II. MICRO-SOCIOLOGICAL, INDIVIDUAL OR SMALL-SCALE FACTORS

CONCLUSION TO PART II

Part III DURKHEIM ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

PREFACE TO PART III

INTRODUCTION TO PART III

8. DURKHEIM ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IN SOCIETY

9. DURKHEIM ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN THE RULES OF SOCIOLOGICAL METHOD

10. INTERREGNUM ON SUICIDE (1897)

11. DURKHEIM’S UNDESERVEDLY FAMOUS ‘TWO LAWS OF PENAL EVOLUTION’ ESSAY (1901)

12. DURKHEIM ON CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN MORAL EDUCATION (1902–03)

CONCLUSION TO PART III

Part IV SOCIAL FACT OR SOCIAL PHENOMENON? DURKHEIM’S CONCEPT OF THE COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS AS A ‘SOCIAL FACT’

PREFACE TO PART IV

INTRODUCTION TO PART IV

13. WHAT DOES DURKHEIM MEAN BY THE CONCEPT OF THE ‘SOCIAL’ AND WHAT DOES HE MEAN BY THE CONCEPT OF A ‘FACT’?

14. SOCIAL FACTS OR SOCIAL PHENOMENA?

15. SOCIAL FACTS AND SOCIOLOGY

16. SOCIAL FACTS AS LIVING THINGS

CONCLUSION TO PART IV

Part V SOME PROBLEMS WITH DURKHEIM’S CONCEPT OF THE COMMON AND COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS

PREFACE TO PART V

INTRODUCTION TO PART V

17. INTERDEPENDENCE AND THE DIVISION OF LABOUR IN SOCIETY

18. DURKHEIM ON SOCIALISM

19. PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

20. INDIVIDUALISM, DURKHEIM AND THE DREYFUS AFFAIR

CONCLUSION TO PART V

CONCLUSION

APPENDIX: ON PAYING A DEBT TO SOCIETY

NOTES

Preface

Introduction

Part I The Concept of the Collective Consciousness of Society

Part II The Form of the Collective Consciousness

Part III Durkheim on Crime and Punishment

Part IV Social Fact or Social Phenomenon? Durkheim’s Concept of the Collective Consciousness as a ‘Social Fact’

Part V Some Problems with Durkheim’s Concept of the Common and Collective Consciousness

Conclusion

Appendix

REFERENCES

INDEX