Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Professional Ethics and Civic Morals : Routledge Classics - Emile Durkheim

Professional Ethics and Civic Morals

By: Emile Durkheim

Paperback | 28 September 2018 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


RRP $34.99

$34.75

or 4 interest-free payments of $8.69 with

 or 

Ships in 5 to 6 business days

Emile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and Professional Ethics and Civic Morals is one of his most neglected yet insightful works. Durkheim's view that the instability of industrial society was connected to the decline of religion and his characterization of the state as the ultimate moral force in society reveal his lifelong engagement with the relationship between the individual and society.

In Professional Ethics and Civic Morals Durkheim poses a major question: given the negative social consequences of unfettered markets, which caused what he termed 'anomie', how is the state to reconcile morality with the market? Durkheim argues that the answer is to be found in the evolution of a civil religion, in the form of professional codes and civic values, which would counteract the effects of individualism, just as guilds had regulated medieval economic life.

Arguing that the state has a vital role to play in moral life and that morals are at bottom social facts - a controversial position which drew considerable criticism - Durkheim also argues that the state had a duty to protect the rights of the individual, via a form of cosmopolitan patriotism.

Durkheim also articulates a highly original and critical interpretation of the rules around property and inheritance - a perspective which resonates with debates about inequality and the redistribution of wealth today.

Included in this Routledge Classics edition is a new introduction by Bryan S.Turner, placing Durkheim in contemporary context and outlining the key tenets of Professional Ethics and Civic Morals.

Industry Reviews

'...one cannot help realizing that had the social sciences paid more attention to Durkheim half a century or so ago, a good many false steps might have been saved and we might be much further along than we are today. Even if his point of view in its entirety may not be acceptable, Durkheim had insights well ahead of his age.' Annual Review of Anthropology


'...one cannot help realizing that had the social sciences paid more attention to Durkheim half a century or so ago, a good many false steps might have been saved and we might be much further along than we are today. Even if his point of view in its entirety may not be acceptable, Durkheim had insights well ahead of his age.' Annual Review of Anthropology

Routledge Classics

Gravity and Grace : Routledge Classics - Simone Weil

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
Modern Man in Search of a Soul : Routledge Classics - C.G. Jung
Gender Trouble : Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - Judith Butler
The Road to Serfdom : Routledge Classics - F.A. Hayek

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
Understanding Media : The Extensions of Man - Marshall McLuhan

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
Distinction : A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste - Pierre Bourdieu
The Open Society and Its Enemies : Routledge Classics - Karl Popper
The Logic of Scientific Discovery : Routledge Classics - Karl Popper
Waiting for God : Routledge Classics - Simone Weil
Stone Age Economics : Routledge Classics - Marshall Sahlins
Dreams : Routledge Classics - C.G. Jung
Archaeology of Knowledge : Routledge Classics - Michel Foucault

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
Outlaw Culture : Resisting Representations - bell  hooks
Psychology and the Occult : Routledge Classics - C.G. Jung

RRP $29.99

$26.75

11%
OFF
How the Irish Became White : Routledge Classics - Noel Ignatiev
Unpopular Essays : Routledge Classics - Bertrand Russell
History of Western Philosophy : Routledge Classics - Bertrand Russell