期刊名称：Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE)
印刷版ISSN：1876-9098
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
期号：1
页码：121-127
出版社：Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
摘要：émile Durkheim believed that even the seemingly individual act of "thinking" is a social activity (Calhoun, et al. 2007, 142). Philippe Steiner extends this Durkheimian emphasis on societal level explanations to the burgeoning field of economic sociology. Just as thinking depends upon external categories and meanings provided by society, Durkheim instructs us that we likewise cannot truck, barter, or exchange without knowledge that is inscribed by society. This is the first book on Durkheim's economic sociology, perhaps because Durkheim was less than explicit in his intent to create such a subfield. Steiner, a prominent Durkheimian scholar, shows that simply reading Durkheim's four most popular books that are translated into English—The division of labor in society (1893); The rules of sociological method (1895); Suicide (1897); and The elementary forms of religious life (1912)—will not yield a comprehensive view of Durkheim's economic sociology. Instead, Steiner expertly marshals period journals, including Durkheim's own journal L'Année Sociologique, and Durkheim's personal letters to fill in the holes. True to his communitarian sensibilities, Durkheim did not carry out his economic sociology project alone. Steiner shows how Durkheim's students, Marcel Mauss, Maurice Halbwachs, and Fran.ois Simiand (among others), pushed his economic sociology research project forward during and after their tutor's lifetime. Since these scholars are more commonly studied by anthropologists, Steiner unearths fresh classical material for economic sociologists
