TY  - JOUR
TI  - Durkheim’s Epistemology: The Neglected Argument
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - Emile Durkheim
KW  - causality
KW  - ritual
KW  - sociology of knowledge
KW  - categories of thought
KW  - collective practice
KW  - epistemology
AB  - Durkheim’s epistemology, the argument for the social origins of the categories of the understanding, is his most important and most neglected argument. This argument has been confused with his sociology of knowledge and Durkheim’s overall position has been misunderstood as a consequence. The current popularity of a "cultural" or "ideological" interpretation of Durkheim is as much a misunderstanding of his position as the "functional" interpretation from which the current interpretations seek to rescue him. Durkheim articulated a sophisticated epistemology in the classical sense, a point that has been entirely missed.
AU  - Ann Rawls
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2014-13-2/131864956.html
PY  - 2014
SP  - 84-141
VL  - 13