Steiner, Philippe.

Durkheim and the birth of economic sociology/ Philippe Steiner ; translated by Keith Tribe. - Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2011. - viii, 249 p. ; 25 cm.

Chapter One: Durkheim and the Critique of Political Economy 7

Chapter Two: Politics, Economy and Religion 38

Chapter Three: Simiand and the Critique of Political Economy 60

Chapter Four: Positive Political Economy, or Durkheimian Economic Sociology 89

Chapter Five: Religion and Economy: Mauss and the Second Durkheimian Programme 116

Chapter Six: The Encounter between Two Programmes 142

Chapter Seven: Sociology of Economic Knowledge and the Critique of Political Economy 165

Chapter Eight: From Religious Rationalisation to Rational Education 191


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Economics--Sociological aspects.
Durkheimian school of sociology.

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