Morals, Models, and Motives in a Different Light

A Rumination on Alan P. Fiske's Structures of Social Life

Bibliographic Data

ID7769307
AuthorsHarriet Whitehead (0000-0002-7015-3729, Duke University, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume21
Issue3
Pages319-356
Publication date1993-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEthos (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/eth.1993.21.3.02a00040
OpenAlexW2047247518
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited16

At one point in the evolution his thinking, Durkheim reasoned that the moral force of social rules felt by the individual as an external force could not spring from so feeble, so inconsistent, and so interior a source as the individual conscience itself but must be, as it is felt to be, an external pressure, the only logical source for which is 'society'. Durkheim's 'society' was not the aggregate of individuals that compose it, but that greater entity emergent from their collective association. This was the source of the force, so to speak, that greater entity as apprehended by the individual via the system of collective representations into which he was born. In cultural anthropology, this version of Durkheim's vision survives to the

Cultural Differences and Values · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Representations and Identity

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