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#34 Durkheim on Society’s need for Impersonal Concepts
The science of impersonal rituals as a collective rationality
Mar 18, 2022
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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…
Mar 4, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method: key extracts from Preface, Introduction, Chapters 1-4
Pre-archive text..
Mar 3, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
Individual Differentiation
Not the 'horde'
May 10, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
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The Origins of ‘Society’
By William Outhwaite in 'The Future of Society'
Jun 22, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Subsystems of Society ‘Interpenetrate’ to function
Richard Münch defends Parsons against one of Parsons' students, Niklas Luhmann
Apr 24, 2022
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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…
Feb 23, 2022
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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
Mar 11, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
#28 Lukes on the Social Determination of Truth
Moral relativism and other temptations
Mar 11, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
The path of The Habitus
By Pierre Bourdieu [the 1st of 2 concepts he made famous]
Jun 14, 2022
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MICHAEL G. HELLER
Niklas Luhmann, Differentiation, in Theory of Society
Chapter 4 Differentiation System Differentiation Since its inception, sociology has been concerned with differentiation. The term alone deserves…
Mar 19, 2023
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Michael G. Heller
Elster on 'Method' in social science
Methodological Individualism (there is no alternative)
Feb 23
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Michael G. Heller
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