Émile Durkheim and the Collective Consciousness of Society - (Key Issues in Modern Sociology) by Kenneth Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This volume presents the first ever book-length treatment of Émile Durkheim's concept of the 'collective consciousness of society'. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>'Émile 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.</p> <p> 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>'Kenneth Smith opens Pandora's box and retheorizes Durkheim's crucial notion of the "conscience collective". His careful analytical exercise is not just illuminating for criminology but also for social theory in general. Smith prompts us to ask once again what the common or collective consciousness of our own societies today might look like. A major achievement of Durkheimian scholarship.' --Hans-Peter Müller, Professor of Sociology, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany</p><br><br><p>'In his excellent book Kenneth Smith provides a rigorous reading of a wider range of Durkheim's texts than is typically used by sociologists and criminologists. In doing so, he finds rarely noticed positive developments of, but also flaws in, the conceptual systems Durkheim deploys. Smith works with these systems, discriminating between them, correcting them, combining them, and using his own sociological imagination to produce a new and conceptually enriched Durkheimianism.' --Frank Pearce, Professor of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada</p><br><br><p>'This excellent book makes a number of extremely interesting and original arguments and neatly links the historical/theoretical focus on Durkheim to contemporary criminological and more broadly sociological concerns. It should be accessible to undergraduates as well as being of interest to scholars in the field.' --William Outhwaite, Professor of Sociology, Newcastle University, UK</p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Kenneth Smith is Reader in Criminology and Sociology at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK and the author of 'A Guide to Marx's "Capital" Vols I-III' (2012), also published by Anthem Press.</p>
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