Susan Stedman Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 3782072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Stedman Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan Stedman |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES S S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCL Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Durkheim and Renouvier. Critical Philosophy and Humanism
Cet article traite de l’influence profonde que Renouvier a exercée sur Durkheim à travers son rationalisme critique, influence dont le principal témoin réside dans la centralité de la logique de la représentation dans la connaissance de la réalité sociale. La non-prise en compte de ce langage philosophique a conduit à d’importants malentendus sur la pensée de Durkheim. En outre, ce langage philosophique a de fortes implications pour une théorie d…
The Social Origins of Thought
By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the though…
Chapter 7 Durkheim, Anthropology and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Élémentaires De La Vie Religieuse
Moral Humanism and the Question of Holism
This paper explores the nature of Durkheim’s theoretical language concerning the whole and the individual. I look at the questions of holism and individualism throughout his thought, but I particularly focus on ‘L’individualisme et les intellectuels’, where he enters the debate over the Dreyfus affair, espousing the language of intellectual and moral right. I examine the historical and philosophical background of this and the tensions between ind…
Functionalism of Mind and Functionalism of Society
This essay examines Durkheim's functionalism, to argue that it cannot be adequately understood through later movements of structural functionalism, especially Parsonian functionalism. Concretely, for Durkheim, the function of the division of labour is to create solidarity but this runs into the problem of modern pathologies. More abstractly, his functionalism has two essential sets of components, and it is only through the relation between these …
Action and the Question of the Categories
Durkheim's account of the categories is re-examined, in a critique of the fundamentally mistaken and philosophically uninformed interpretation put forward in Rawls's Epistemology and Practice (2004). This converts Durkheim into a pragmatist, even a behaviourist, more or less reducing conscience to an epiphenomenon of sounds, movements, and socially generated raw emotions. She bypasses the key role of representations and symbols, while her emphasi…
Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871
Through an examination of certain features of his thought and neglected aspects of his theoretical apparatus and of his historical era, Durkheim is defended against the accusation that he takes no account of violence. Indeed, rather than neglecting it, he has a wide conception of violence that focuses on the social. This was radical for his day for it moves the question of violence away from conservative ideas that violence was a permanent featur…
Durkheim Reconsidered
Durkheim Reconsidered
"Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often misunderstood, since it is commonly viewed through the lens of later authors who used his writings to illustrate certain tendencies in social thought." "Durkheim Reconsidered challenges the common views of Durkheim and offers a fresh and much-needed reappraisal of his ideas. Stedman Jones dismantles th…
Kantian Philosophy and Sociological Methodology
Durkheim Reconsidered
"Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often misunderstood, since it is commonly viewed through the lens of later authors who used his writings to illustrate certain tendencies in social thought." "Durkheim Reconsidered challenges the common views of Durkheim and offers a fresh and much-needed reappraisal of his ideas. Stedman Jones dismantles th…
Action and the Question of the Categories
Durkheim's account of the categories is re-examined, in a critique of the fundamentally mistaken and philosophically uninformed interpretation put forward in Rawls's Epistemology and Practice (2004). This converts Durkheim into a pragmatist, even a behaviourist, more or less reducing conscience to an epiphenomenon of sounds, movements, and socially generated raw emotions. She bypasses the key role of representations and symbols, while her emphasi…
Functionalism of Mind and Functionalism of Society
This essay examines Durkheim's functionalism, to argue that it cannot be adequately understood through later movements of structural functionalism, especially Parsonian functionalism. Concretely, for Durkheim, the function of the division of labour is to create solidarity but this runs into the problem of modern pathologies. More abstractly, his functionalism has two essential sets of components, and it is only through the relation between these …
Kantian Philosophy and Sociological Methodology
Kantian Philosophy and Sociological Methodology
Durkheim Reconsidered
"Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of modern sociology and a key figure in the development of social theory. And yet today his work is often misunderstood, since it is commonly viewed through the lens of later authors who used his writings to illustrate certain tendencies in social thought." "Durkheim Reconsidered challenges the common views of Durkheim and offers a fresh and much-needed reappraisal of his ideas. Stedman Jones dismantles th…
Durkheim Reconsidered
Action and the Question of the Categories
Durkheim's account of the categories is re-examined, in a critique of the fundamentally mistaken and philosophically uninformed interpretation put forward in Rawls's Epistemology and Practice (2004). This converts Durkheim into a pragmatist, even a behaviourist, more or less reducing conscience to an epiphenomenon of sounds, movements, and socially generated raw emotions. She bypasses the key role of representations and symbols, while her emphasi…
Durkheim, the question of violence and the Paris Commune of 1871
Through an examination of certain features of his thought and neglected aspects of his theoretical apparatus and of his historical era, Durkheim is defended against the accusation that he takes no account of violence. Indeed, rather than neglecting it, he has a wide conception of violence that focuses on the social. This was radical for his day for it moves the question of violence away from conservative ideas that violence was a permanent featur…
Functionalism of Mind and Functionalism of Society
This essay examines Durkheim's functionalism, to argue that it cannot be adequately understood through later movements of structural functionalism, especially Parsonian functionalism. Concretely, for Durkheim, the function of the division of labour is to create solidarity but this runs into the problem of modern pathologies. More abstractly, his functionalism has two essential sets of components, and it is only through the relation between these …
Moral Humanism and the Question of Holism
This paper explores the nature of Durkheim’s theoretical language concerning the whole and the individual. I look at the questions of holism and individualism throughout his thought, but I particularly focus on ‘L’individualisme et les intellectuels’, where he enters the debate over the Dreyfus affair, espousing the language of intellectual and moral right. I examine the historical and philosophical background of this and the tensions between ind…
The Social Origins of Thought
By studying how different societies understand categories such as time and causality, the Durkheimians decentered Western epistemology. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the “category project” which did not only stir controversies among contemporary scholars but paved the way for other theories exploring how the though…
Chapter 7 Durkheim, Anthropology and the Question of the Categories in Les Formes Élémentaires De La Vie Religieuse
Durkheim and Renouvier. Critical Philosophy and Humanism
Cet article traite de l’influence profonde que Renouvier a exercée sur Durkheim à travers son rationalisme critique, influence dont le principal témoin réside dans la centralité de la logique de la représentation dans la connaissance de la réalité sociale. La non-prise en compte de ce langage philosophique a conduit à d’importants malentendus sur la pensée de Durkheim. En outre, ce langage philosophique a de fortes implications pour une théorie d…
Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory (3 works)