Reason and Social Change in Durkheim's Thought

The Changing Relationship between Individuals and Society

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7537211
AutoresJohn Harms (University of Kansas, autor de correspondencia), John B Harms
Año1981
Volumen24
Número4
Páginas393-410
Fecha de publicación1981-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Pacific Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0030-8919 • E-ISSN: 2330-0736
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/1388775
OpenAlexW2282326635
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas18

The purpose of this essay is to facilitate an understanding of Durkheim's conception of social change. While the issue of social change is present in Durkheim's thought, it is ancillary to his concern with the relationship between the individual and society. It is suggested that Durkheim's conception of social change can be understood properly only by viewing it as part of his larger sociological concern with the changing relationship between individuals and society. Special attention is focused on the much neglected issue of Durkheim's conception and use of reason, which is pivotal to the linkage between individuals and society. It will be demonstrated that, from Durkheim's perspective, change in the social structures through which individuals associate affects the faculty of reason and the formation of “collective consciousness,” and thus the moral and normative regulation of social action

Action (physics · Consciousness · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Normative · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Social change · Social science · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Social Representations and Identity