The paradox of Durkheim's manifesto: Reconsidering The Rules of Sociological Method

Theory and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 85-104

  Cormack, Patricia ^a  

^a ST FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 21344436134     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00140759     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Emile Durkheim, The Rules of Sociological Method, trans. W. D. Halls (New York: The Free Press, 1982), 31.
2. Steven Lukes, Emile Durkheim, His Life and Work: A Historical and Critical Study (Middlesex, England: Penguin, 1973), 4.
3. Kenneth Thompson, Emile Durkheim (New York: Tavistock Publications and Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1982), 107.
4. Lukes, "Introduction" in The Rules of Sociological Method, 23.
5. As evidence of the relatively recent emergence of distinctly social images and concepts, Swingewood points out that Diderot's mid-eighteenth-century Encyclopedia (an attempt to catalogue all western thought) included no entry for "society." Alan Swingewood, A Short History of Sociological Thought (London: Macmillan, 1984). 18.
6. André Breton, Manifestoes of Surrealism, trans. R. Seaver and H. R. Lane (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1969), 125.
7. T. Filippo Marinetti, "Foundation manifesto of futurism" in Jane Rye, editor, Futurism (Highgate Hill, London: Studio Vista/Dutton Pictureback, 1972), 7.
8. Marjorie Perloff, '"Violence and Precision': The manifesto as art form," Chicago Review 34 (1984): 65.
9. Shumway points out that the avant-garde artists defined and named themselves in terms of their literary practices (e.g., surrealism, dadaism, symbolism). Their manifestos were then examples of these literary actions. Loren Shumway, "The intelligibility of the avant-grade manifesto" French Literature Series 7 (1980): 57.
10. Marinetti, "Foundation manifesto," 9.
11. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, trans. Adrian Collins (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1957), 8.
12. Nietzsche, The Use and Abuse of History, ibid., 6.
13. Durkheim, The Rules, 31.
14. Durkheim, The Rules, ibid., 33.
15. Emile Durkheim, On Morality and Society, ed. Robert N. Bellah (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), 8.
16. Situationists, "'Situationists': International manifesto" in Programs and Manifestoes on Twentieth-century Architecture, ed. Ulrich Conrads, trans. Michael Bollock (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970), 172.
17. Durkheim, The Rules, 60. Emphasis in original.
18. Durkheim, The Rules, ibid., 69.
19. Morris Ginsberg, On The Diversity of Morals (London: William Heinemann, 1956), 51.
20. Durkheim, The Rules, 31.
21. Emile Durkheim, "Sociology and its scientific field," in Lewis A. Coser, editor, Georg Simmel (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1965), 46.
22. Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, "The Communist Manifesto," in Robert C. Tucker, editor, The Marx-Engels Reader (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978), 473.
23. Durkheim, The Rules, 50.
24. Durkheim, The Rules, ibid., 52.
25. Durkheim, The Rules, ibid., 54.
26. One subsequent school of sociology, ethnomethodology, was to employ disruption of the everyday as its primary mode of making social facts visible. Unfortunately, however, this disruption of the taken-for-granted meant that it often killed the sociality it attempted to describe.
27. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London & New York: Verso, 1983).
28. Emile Durkheim, Moral Education: A Study in the Theory and Application of the Sociology of Education, trans. Everett K. Wilson and Herman Schnurer (New York: The Free Press, 1973), 54.
29. Emile Durkheim, Moral Education: A Study in the Theory and Application of the Sociology of Education, ibid., 11.
30. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, trans. Joseph Ward Swain (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1915), 429.