Durkheim's sociology and theories of degeneration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2160657 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Hawkins (0000-0002-6931-0934, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-137 |
| Publication date | 1999-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economy and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03085149900000028 |
| OpenAlex | W2066161105 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 39 |
This Paper explores the relationshipbetween theories of degeneracy inspired by medicine and psychiatry in the nineteenth century and the sociological theory of Emile Durkheim. After briefly reviewing the main themes of degeneracy theory, there follows an analysis of Durkheim's writings of the 1880s and 1890s and 1890s on crime, suicide and birth-rates. The paper argues, first, that Durkheim's relationship to degeneracy theory is considerably more complex than is generally portrayed in the secondary literature and undergoes considerable modification over time: second, that Durkheim's theoretical efforts were not only aimed at sociological as opposed to biological explanations of the phenomena studied by theorists of degeneration, but also grounded a new normative understanding of these phenomena that was consonant with the humanitarian ideals of ethical individualism
Degeneration (medical · Economics · Epistemology · Neoclassical economics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Decadence, Literature, and Society · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Medicine · Philosophy
Quality and quantity
Ideology and the development of sociological theory
The descent of man
Faces of Degeneration
Suicide
Emile Durkheim, his life and work
Psychologie des foules
Durkheim on Occupational Corporations
Suicide
The Sense of Decadence in Nineteenth-Century France
The Psychology of Socialism
The radical sociology of Durkheim and Mauss
Social Darwinism in European and American Thought, 1860–1945
The Rules of Sociological Method
A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism
The struggle for existence in 19th-century social theory
Desire and the delinquent
Suicide, Gender, and the Fear of Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Medical and Social Thought
Some Remarks on Punishment
Social Darwinism in European and American Thought 1860-1945
The Study of Sociology
Durkheim,The Division of Labour, and social Darwinism
The Division of Labour in Society
Emile Durkheim
Traditionalism and organicism in Durkheim's early writings, 1885-1893
Durkheim on Occupational Corporations
Social Darwinism in France
A Re-Examination of Durkheim's Theory of Human Nature
Durkheim et les femmes ou le Suicide inachevé
The Man Versus the State, with Four Essays on Politics and Society
Durkheim
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |