Contributions to L'Année Sociologique

For fifteen years Emile Durkheim worked on the journal LAnnee Sociologique—selecting editing writing and shaping the goals and methods of the French School of sociology. Now Durkheims own contributions to LAnnee are available in English. Classified and explained by Durkheim scholar Yash Nandan this useful collection clarifies the role of LAnnee Sociologique in the development of scientific sociology; the position of LAnnee in the body of Durkheims own work and the development of Durkheims ideas; the importance and function of Durkheims categories of sociological data; Durkheims view of contemporaries including Simmel Westermarck Tarde Glotz and Steinmetz; the exchange of ideas between historians and the LAnnee group; and the reasons for LAnnees reputation as a unique publication in the history of sociology. Professor Nandan has organized this material according to Durkheims own classification system with major sections on the concepts and methodologies of general juridic and moral sociology criminal sociology and the statistics on morals. Subdivisions treat issues in law suicide social political and domestic organization juridic and moral systems the social contexts of crime the sociology of knowledge political sociology social history and historical sociology.