In Search of the Elementary Forms of Social Life: Law, Culture, and Religion in a Durkheimian Perspective

by Werner Gephart

The book offers an original interpretation of Emile Durkheim's theory and demonstrates its potential for the analysis of various lifeworld phenomena. In the first part, Durkheim's role in the context of an original unity of sociology of law, sociology of religion and social theory is illuminated and his original approach to the analysis of elementary forms of social life is reconstructed. The second part traces these elementary forms through examples...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3465046129
• ISBN13: 9783465046127
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Verlag Vittorio Klostermann
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 13.38 lbs.