Description:Emile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology challenges conventional thinking on the use of Durkheim s key concept of the collective consciousness of society, and represents the first ever book-length treatment of this underexplored topic. Operating from both a criminological and sociological perspective, Kenneth Smith argues that Durkheim s original concept must be sensitively revised and updated for its real relevance to come to the fore.This study puts forward three major adjustments to Durkheim s concept of the collective consciousness. It complicates the idea that the common and collective consciousness are interchangeable terms for the same phenomenon; it refutes the disciplinary function of society as part of the concept of the common or collective consciousness; and it reveals the illusiveness of the supposed universal set of equally held ideas in a society, underlining the importance of geographical and generational variation."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology). To get started finding Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology)
Description: Emile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology challenges conventional thinking on the use of Durkheim s key concept of the collective consciousness of society, and represents the first ever book-length treatment of this underexplored topic. Operating from both a criminological and sociological perspective, Kenneth Smith argues that Durkheim s original concept must be sensitively revised and updated for its real relevance to come to the fore.This study puts forward three major adjustments to Durkheim s concept of the collective consciousness. It complicates the idea that the common and collective consciousness are interchangeable terms for the same phenomenon; it refutes the disciplinary function of society as part of the concept of the common or collective consciousness; and it reveals the illusiveness of the supposed universal set of equally held ideas in a society, underlining the importance of geographical and generational variation."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology). To get started finding Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society: A Study in Criminology (Key Issues in Modern Sociology), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.