Philip Smith is Professor of Sociology at Yale University.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Durkheim's Life and the Four Major Books
Situating Durkheim - early life and training - The Division of Labor - The Rules of Sociological Method - Suicide - the middle career phase - L'Année Sociologique - the Elementary Forms - death.
Chapter 2: Durkheim's Other Works and the Contributions of His Students
The variety of outputs - individualism - socialism - ethics- the state - sex/gender/family/marriage- pragmatism -education - the body - punishment - classification - Mauss - Hertz - Hubert - other students in the Année team.
Chapter 3: Durkheimian Thought 1917-1950
France-the fate of Durkheim's team - Mauss the gift and the body - Halbwachs and collective memory - Bataille and the Collège de Sociologie - England and structural functionalist anthropology - Radcliffe-Brown - Evans-Pritchard - the United States - Parsons - Merton.
Chapter 4: Through the Cultural Turn 1950-1985
Parsons and systems theory - the fall of Parsons - Germany - Lévi-Strauss - British anthropology - Mary Douglas - Durkheimian empirical sociology in the United States.
Chapter 5: Into the Twenty-First Century: Durkheim Revived
Durkheim neglected - the rise of cultural sociology in the United States - Jeffrey Alexander and the Strong Program - Randall Collins and interaction ritual - Other Durkheimian work in the United States - the Durkheimian Studies/Études Durkheimiennes Group - Germany - adaptations of Mary Douglas on grid/group - evolutionary psychology- the return of normative Durkheimian theory.
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