The Living Legacy of Marx, Durkheim & Weber:
Applications and Analyses of Classical Sociological Theory by Modern Social Scientists


TABLE OF CONTENTS



Richard Altschuler icra@aol.com
Introduction

Part I: Applications of Marx, Durkheim and Weber

Herbert J. Gans
Sociological Amnesia: The Noncumulation Of Normal Social Science . . . p.1

Farshad A. Araghis araghi@acc.fau.edu
Two Theories Of Development: Development as a“Thing” Versus the“Relation” of Development . . . p.13

Nah Doves
An African-Centered Critique of Marx’s Logic . . . p.32

Ahmet Insel insel@univ.paris1.fr
On Unachieved Democracy . . . p.47

Robert W. Duff and Lawrence K. Hong lhong@calstatela.edu
Age Density, Religiosity, and Death Anxiety in Retirement Communities . . . p.73

T. P. Schwartz dsb@uriacc.uri.edu
Durkheim’s Prediction About the Shift from Family to Organizational Inheritance: Evidence from the Wills of Providence, 1775 — 1985 . . . p.91

Frans van Poppel and Lincoln H. Day
A Test of Durkheim’s Theory of Suicide — Without Committing the“Ecological Fallacy” . . . p.116

Jules J. Wanderer wanderer@spot.colorado.edu
Nature’s a Joker: Self and Reality Worlds for Simmel, Ibsen, Dick and Durkheim . . . p.129

Anthony J. Blasi ablasi@voyageronline.net
Office Charisma in Early Christian Ephesus . . . p.149

Thomas W. Segady tsegady@sfasu.edu
Consequences of the Increasing Rationality of Music: A Reassessment of Weberian Rationalization . . . p.164

Stanford M. Lyman slyman@gate.net
The Assimilation-Pluralism Debate: Toward a Postmodern Resolution of the American Ethnoracial Dilemma . . . p.177

Carl B. Backman
Life After Death: An Empirical Project in the Classical Theory Course . . . p.213

Donald Johnson johnsond@is.nyu.edu
Academic and Intellectual Foundations of Teacher Education in Global Perspective . . . p.232



Part II: Analyses of Marx, Durkheim and Weber

Arthur J. Vidich
Social Theory and the Substantive Problems of Sociology . . . p.253

Jon Gubbay
A Marxist Critique of Weberian Class Analyses . . . p.273

Robert Weil robweil@aol.com
Contradictory Class Definitions: Petty Bourgeoisie and the“Classes” of Erik Olin Wright . . . p.294

Jennifer M. Lehmann jlehmann@unlinfo.unl.edu
The Question of Caste in Modern Society: Durkheim’s Contradictory Theories of Race, Class, and Sex . . . p.336

Robert K. Merton
Durkheim’s Division of Labor in Society . . . p.372

Robert G. Perrin
Emile Durkheim’s Division of Labor and the Shadow of Herbert Spencer . . . p.382

Warren TenHouten wtenhout@ucla.edu
Dual Symbolic Classification and the Primary Emotions: A Proposed Synthesis of Durkheim’s Sociogenic and Plutchik’s Psychoevolutionary Theories of Emotions . . . p.409

Theo Verheggen verheggen@psych.kun.nl
Durkheim’s“Representations” Considered as“Vorstellungen”. . . p.435

Kenneth L. Morrison
Social Life and External Regularity: A Comparative Analysis Of the Investigative Methods of Durkheim and Weber . . . p.473

Thomas Abel and William C. Cockerham
Lifestyle or Lebensfuhrung? Critical Remarks on the Mistranslation of Weber’s "Class, Status, Party". . . p.489

Lawrence A. Scaff
Weber, Liberalism and Revolution. . . p.497

Ahmad Sadri and Mahmoud Sadri F_sadri@twu.edu
Intercultural Understanding: Max Weber and Leo Strauss . . . p.507

Walter L. Wallace wwallace@princeton.edu
Progress in Sociology: A Reply to Cole’s Reply . . . p.529

Harry H. Bash sociolog@umslvma.umsl.edu
A Scatter of Sociologies: Vertical Drift and the Quest for Theoretical Integration in Sociology . . . p.537

Lewis A. Coser
A Review of Democratic Individuality. . . p.566

Philip Smith and Jeffrey C. Alexander
Review Essay: Durkheim’s Religious Revival . . . p.570

Kevin Anderson
A Review of Reinventing Marxism . . . p.580

Nicos Mouzelis
Review Article: Comparing the Durkheimian And Marxist Traditions . . . p.582



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