Homo Duplex
Barry Glassner, 5 May 1983
Positivism and Sociology: Explaining Social Life
by Peter Halfpenny.
Allen and Unwin, 141 pp., £10.95, October 1982,0 04 300084 3 Show More
by Peter Halfpenny.
Allen and Unwin, 141 pp., £10.95, October 1982,
The Rules of Sociological Method and Selected Texts on Sociology and its Method
by Emile Durkheim and Steven Lukes, translated by W.D. Halls.
Macmillan, 264 pp., £15, November 1982,0 333 28071 7 Show More
by Emile Durkheim and Steven Lukes, translated by W.D. Halls.
Macmillan, 264 pp., £15, November 1982,
The Sociological Domain: The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology
edited by Philippe Besnard.
Cambridge, 296 pp., £24, March 1983,0 521 23876 5 Show More
edited by Philippe Besnard.
Cambridge, 296 pp., £24, March 1983,
Durkheim and the Study of Suicide
by Steve Taylor.
Macmillan, 249 pp., £15, July 1982,0 333 28645 6 Show More
by Steve Taylor.
Macmillan, 249 pp., £15, July 1982,
“... therefore provides an acid test for the current reading of Durkheim. Through his translation, W.D. Halls has presented us with a Durkheim who is much less dogmatic and positivistic than that of the previous (1938) translation, and a relaxed and flowing syntax delivers Durkheim as an accomplished writer. Consider a passage in the earlier edition on the ... ”
