The Educational Sociology of Emile Durkheim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5634673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A K C Ottaway (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1955 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 213 |
| Publication date | 1955-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1315 • E-ISSN: 1468-4446 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/586948 |
| OpenAlex | W2315244875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
URING the whole of his teaching life at the Universities of Bordeaux Jand Paris, Durkheim taught educational theory and practice as well as sociology. In I887 a special post was created for him in the Facultd des Lettres at Bordeaux where he was put in charge of the social sciences and pddagogie until I902. During this period a large proportion of his teaching was devoted to education, although in these same years he produced most of his major works and initiated the modern approach to the science of sociology in France. In I902 he was appointed as deputy for Ferdinand Buisson, whom he succeeded in I906, in the chair of the Science de l'Bducation at the Sorbonne. At this time sociology was not much in favour in the University of Paris, and was thus introduced under the cloak of education until in I9I3 Durkheim's position was re-named as the chair of the Science of Education and Sociology. He was only destined to remain a few more years before his death in I9I7. It is the puipose of this paper to outline some of Durkheim's ideas on education, and to show how they are closely linked with his sociological thought. It can be no more than an introduction to a subject upon which the writer is preparing a more substantial work. None of the educational writings of Durkheim has yet been published in England. In fact most of them were only published posthumously in France. Some notes on the most important of them are given at the end of this paper.[I] The majority of them were prepared in the form of lectures, and are listed in order of the dates on thich the course was first given, and not according to the date of publication which is separately recorded. There are many lectures still existing in manuscript form.[:2] It was thought best to give quotations in the following pages in English, and the translations are those of the writer except where othertise noted as coming from existing translations
Epistemology · Social science · Sociology · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Philosophy · Social Sciences and Governance
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1973 - 2022 (50) |
| Highly cited | No |