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Durkheim on society
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Michael G. Heller
Durkheim, Pragmatism and Sociology
‘The Truth’ was collective & impersonal before science..
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Michael G. Heller
#34 Durkheim on Society’s need for Impersonal Concepts
The science of impersonal rituals as a collective rationality
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Emile Durkheim, The Origin of the Notion of Totemic Principle, or Mana
Parallels between original purposes. If god and society were one and the same, religion was the worship of society itself, and the god of a clan was…
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Michael G. Heller
Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method: key extracts from Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-4
Pre-archive text..
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Michael G. Heller
Individual Differentiation
Not the 'horde'
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Is society a cooperation?
Society as ‘cooperation’
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Michael G. Heller
The Origins of ‘Society’
By William Outhwaite in 'The Future of Society'
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Subsystems of Society ‘Interpenetrate’ to function
Richard Münch defends Parsons against one of Parsons' students, Niklas Luhmann
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
#16 Gellner on the ease with which modern society maintains a coercive order
The coercive system of a modern complex society operates under conditions and constraints which are radically different from those prevailing earlier.
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
#29 Alexander introduces the Theoretical Logic in Sociology
Two polemics and some arguments for a 4-volume work
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