Émile Durkheim and the Birth of the Gods: Clans, Incest, Totems, Phratries, Hordes, Mana, Taboos, Corroborees, Sodalities, Menstrual Blood, Apes, Chur

by Alexandra Maryanski

Book Overview

The Birth of the Gods is dedicated to Durkheim's effort to understand the basis of social integration. Unlike most social scientists, then and now, Durkheim concluded that humans are naturally more individualistic than collectivistic, that the primal social unit for humans is the macro-level unit ('the horde'), rather than the family, and that social cohesion is easily disrupted by human self-interest. Hence, for Durkheim, one of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138587362
• ISBN13: 9781138587366
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"