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Conservatism and Sociology

1952; University of Chicago Press; Volume: 58; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1086/221116

1537-5390

Robert Nisbet,

Emile Durkheim and Sociology

Philosophical consevatism is the major source, historically, of sociological interest in the social group, status, integration, social function, and processes of disintegration and insecurity. In its reaction to the French Revolution, industrialism, individualism, and secularism, conservatism redirected attention to those traditional and communal areas of society that the rationalists had neglected or disparaged. Through Comte and Le Play these conservative interests and insights were transmitted to Durkheim, who incorporated them into a more scientific framework of study.