Durkheim, Morals And Modernity

Miller, Willie

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“…However, Poggi once again comments on, Durkheim's pathos, his feeling of the contingency and fragility of society, and of modern society particularly, is far from becoming 'bathos'. There is a sense of hope malgré tout in his work (see also Watts Miller 1996), not unrelated to the requirements of social life, as he revealed in the Elementary Forms. According to Durkheim, despite secularisation, there is 'something eternal' in religion, since 'there can be no society that does not experience the need, at regular intervals, to maintain and strengthen the collective feelings and ideas that provide its…”

Section: Evil and Suffering In The Elementary Formsmentioning

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The Evil that Men Suffer: Evil and Suffering from a Durkheimian Perspective

Rosati¹

2005

Durkheimian Studies

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Section: Evil and Suffering In The Elementary Formsmentioning

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The Evil that Men Suffer: Evil and Suffering from a Durkheimian Perspective

Rosati¹

2005

Durkheimian Studies

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“…This logic, however, receives its impetus and dynamism from regular ritual interactions and ceremonies, and in the routine respect shown for sacred places, times, objects, and persons (Datta & Milbrandt, 2014). In the case of modern humanism for instance, all human individuals belong to the abstract generic category of “humanity” (Watts Miller, 1995, p. 95; Wernick, 2001). But this is quite different than an instance of an individual person receiving care or being treated with respect for the sanctity and dignity of their person in an interpersonal interaction.…”

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Suicidal ideation and social integration in three Canadian provinces: The importance of social support and community belonging

Datta

Nakhaie

2022

Canadian Review of Sociology

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Extending recent developments in the neo‐Durkheimian analysis of suicidality as an indicator of social pathology, this paper analyses individual level survey data on suicidal ideation, perceptions of social support, and the sense of belonging from three Canadian provinces drawn from the Canadian Community Health Survey (2015–16). We ask whether or not social support and a sense of belonging affect suicide ideation differently. In answering this question, we pay attention to both subjective and objective indicators of integration, and how subjective indicators independently affect suicide ideation. Results show that a higher level of social support had the largest effect on suicidal ideation and that the effect of a sense of belonging disappeared when measures of social support are accounted for. These findings are consistent with Durkheim's general theory of suicide and previous studies on mental health, highlighting the importance of regular, proximate social interaction as a prophylactic against suicidality.

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“…Durkheim's novelty is the novelty of sociology as the science whose task is to express the organic dialectics of modern society, considered in its internal, dynamic tensions between the pathologies it engenders and the aspirations that the latter inevitably awaken and which are carried forward by social movements. 13 Durkheim conceived sociology as the best answer to the modern social crisis, having the task of understanding and reformulating what religious and socialist movements implicitly expressed.…”

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The ideal of the person: Recovering the novelty of Durkheim’s sociology. Part II: Modern society, the cult of the person, and the sociological project

Callegaro

2013

Journal of Classical Sociology

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The aim of this article is to clarify the difference between the anthropological category of the person, as analyzed in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), and the modern ideal of a free autonomous person, which had been at the center of Durkheim’s sociological project since The Division of Social Labor (1893). After explaining the need to return to a sociological perspective, the article considers Durkheim’s examination of the transformations implied by the modern cult of the person in the practical and intellectual organization of social practices. The modern ideal constitutes morality as a social fact, requiring a new form of moral education, as a first step toward a wider political transformation, based on social aspirations to justice that it is the task of sociology to explain, understand, and help realize. This practical commitment opens the way to an understanding of sociology’s original place in the modern epistemological discussion and, consequently, to an appreciation of the novelty Durkheim achieved in founding the French School of Sociology.

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Durkheim, Morals And Modernity

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The Evil that Men Suffer: Evil and Suffering from a Durkheimian Perspective

The Evil that Men Suffer: Evil and Suffering from a Durkheimian Perspective

Suicidal ideation and social integration in three Canadian provinces: The importance of social support and community belonging

The ideal of the person: Recovering the novelty of Durkheim’s sociology. Part II: Modern society, the cult of the person, and the sociological project

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