<div><B>Revised for the first time in over thirty years, this edition of Emile Durkheim&#8217;s masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology is updated with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes that puts Durkheim&#8217;s work into context for the twenty-first century reader.</B><BR><BR>When it was originally published, <I>The Division of Labor in Society</I> was an entirely original work on the nature of labor and production as they were being shaped by the industrial revolution. Emile Durkheim&#8217;s seminal work<I></I>studies the nature of social solidarity and explores the ties that bind one person to the next in order to hold society together.<BR><BR>This revised and updated second edition fluently conveys Durkheim&#8217;s arguments for contemporary readers. Leading Durkheim scholar Steve Lukes&#8217;s new introduction builds upon Lewis Coser&#8217;s original&#8212;which places the work in its intellectual and historical context and pinpoints its central ideas and arguments. Lukes explains the text&#8217;s continued significance as a tool to think about and deal with problems that face us today. The original translation has been revised and reworked in order to make Durkheim&#8217;s arguments clearer and easier to read.<BR><BR><I>The Division of Labor in Society</I> is an essential resource for students and scholars hoping to deepen their understanding of one of the pioneering voices in modern sociology and twentieth-century social thought.</div>

The Division of Labor in Society

<div>Ranging from Durkheim's original lecture in sociology to an excerpt from the work incomplete at his death, these selections illuminate his multiple approaches to the crucial concept of social solidarity and the study of institutions as diverse as the law, morality, and the family. Durkheim's focus on social solidarity convinced him that sociology must investigate the way that individual behavior itself is the product of social forces. As these writings make clear, Durkheim pursued his powerful model of sociology through many fields, eventually synthesizing both materialist and idealist viewpoints into his functionalist model of society.</div>

Emile Durkheim
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Books By Emile Durkheim (2 Books)

The Division of Labor in Society

On Institutional Analysis

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