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Edward A. Tiryakian

Edward A. Tiryakian

Professor Emeritus of Sociology
Sociology
durkhm@duke.edu
Box 90088, Durham, NC 27708-0088
339 Soc-Psych, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications

The Rise of Rational Choice Theory as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement in Sociology

Journal Article American Sociologist · March 1, 2018 How did Rational Choice Theory (RCT), traditionally rejected by sociologists for its economic individualism, rise rapidly in the 1980s and the 1990s to theoretical and institutional prominence within sociology? Drawing on Frickel and Gross’ (American Socio ... Full text Cite

A Sociology of the Absurd

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews · January 2018 Full text Cite

For durkheim: Essays in historical and cultural sociology

Book · December 5, 2016 For Durkheim is a timely and original contribution to the debate about Durkheim at a time when his concerns on ethics, morality and civil religion have much relevance for our own troubled and divided society. It includes two new essays from Edward A. Tirya ... Full text Cite

Updating Sorokin

Journal Article Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya · January 1, 2016 Cite

Theorizing human rights

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · March 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Durkheim, The Durkheimians am/the Arts

Journal Article CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY-CAHIERS CANADIENS DE SOCIOLOGIE · January 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

Solidarity, yesterday and today

Chapter · January 1, 2014 While solidarity has a rich theoretical and empirical background in Europe, as an ongoing political/cultural accomplishment, it has had an episodic history in the United States, but presently has gained new interest in the social sciences and social philos ... Full text Cite

We're not dopes

Journal Article ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · December 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Bellah, Joas and the future of "the Elementary Forms"

Conference Sociologica · January 1, 2013 While traditional religion has been losing ground in the public sphere in the United States, the sociology of religion has been gaining vitality from several sources, even beyond the many conferences held in 2012 to commemorate Durkheim's epochal Elementar ... Full text Cite

Civilization

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Early Reviews of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Journal Article Journal of Classical Sociology · 2012 this essay examines five reviews of Durkheim's magnum opus, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. The work was published in 1912 and the reviews all were published in 1913. The most favorable appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the most cr ... Cite

The missing religious factor in imagined communities

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · October 1, 2011 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has redrawn understanding of the loci and agents of modern nationalism. Whereas standard interpretations had privileged the movements of modernity of Western nation-states, Anderson's analysis gave priority to the r ... Full text Cite

Imagined communities in the 21st century

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · October 1, 2011 Full text Cite

A sociological odyssey: The comparative voyage of S.N. Eisenstadt

Journal Article Journal of Classical Sociology · August 1, 2011 This essay proposes that the comparative research of Eisenstadt made room for 'tradition' as a creative feature of modernity, rather than as dysfunctional, as in either the liberal or leftist model. He recognized that conflict - often a conflict of generat ... Full text Cite

Editorial Introduction

Journal Article Imagined Communities in the 21st Century, The American Behavioral Scientist · 2011 Cite

The Neglected Religious Factor in “Imagined Communities

Journal Article Imagined Communities in the 21st Century, The American Behavioral Scientist · 2011 Cite

Durkheim’s Reflection on the Crisis… But Which One?

Journal Article Durkheimian Studies/ Etudes Durkheimiennes · 2009 Cite

The Rise of Rational Choice Theory as a Scientific/Intellectual Movement in Sociology

Journal Article American Sociologist · March 1, 2018 How did Rational Choice Theory (RCT), traditionally rejected by sociologists for its economic individualism, rise rapidly in the 1980s and the 1990s to theoretical and institutional prominence within sociology? Drawing on Frickel and Gross’ (American Socio ... Full text Cite

A Sociology of the Absurd

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews · January 2018 Full text Cite

For durkheim: Essays in historical and cultural sociology

Book · December 5, 2016 For Durkheim is a timely and original contribution to the debate about Durkheim at a time when his concerns on ethics, morality and civil religion have much relevance for our own troubled and divided society. It includes two new essays from Edward A. Tirya ... Full text Cite

Updating Sorokin

Journal Article Sotsiologicheskie Issledovaniya · January 1, 2016 Cite

Theorizing human rights

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · March 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Durkheim, The Durkheimians am/the Arts

Journal Article CANADIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY-CAHIERS CANADIENS DE SOCIOLOGIE · January 1, 2014 Link to item Cite

Solidarity, yesterday and today

Chapter · January 1, 2014 While solidarity has a rich theoretical and empirical background in Europe, as an ongoing political/cultural accomplishment, it has had an episodic history in the United States, but presently has gained new interest in the social sciences and social philos ... Full text Cite

We're not dopes

Journal Article ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY · December 1, 2013 Link to item Cite

Bellah, Joas and the future of "the Elementary Forms"

Conference Sociologica · January 1, 2013 While traditional religion has been losing ground in the public sphere in the United States, the sociology of religion has been gaining vitality from several sources, even beyond the many conferences held in 2012 to commemorate Durkheim's epochal Elementar ... Full text Cite

Civilization

Chapter · 2012 Cite

Early Reviews of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life

Journal Article Journal of Classical Sociology · 2012 this essay examines five reviews of Durkheim's magnum opus, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. The work was published in 1912 and the reviews all were published in 1913. The most favorable appeared in the American Journal of Sociology, the most cr ... Cite

The missing religious factor in imagined communities

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · October 1, 2011 Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities has redrawn understanding of the loci and agents of modern nationalism. Whereas standard interpretations had privileged the movements of modernity of Western nation-states, Anderson's analysis gave priority to the r ... Full text Cite

Imagined communities in the 21st century

Journal Article American Behavioral Scientist · October 1, 2011 Full text Cite

A sociological odyssey: The comparative voyage of S.N. Eisenstadt

Journal Article Journal of Classical Sociology · August 1, 2011 This essay proposes that the comparative research of Eisenstadt made room for 'tradition' as a creative feature of modernity, rather than as dysfunctional, as in either the liberal or leftist model. He recognized that conflict - often a conflict of generat ... Full text Cite

Editorial Introduction

Journal Article Imagined Communities in the 21st Century, The American Behavioral Scientist · 2011 Cite

The Neglected Religious Factor in “Imagined Communities

Journal Article Imagined Communities in the 21st Century, The American Behavioral Scientist · 2011 Cite

Durkheim’s Reflection on the Crisis… But Which One?

Journal Article Durkheimian Studies/ Etudes Durkheimiennes · 2009 Cite

Sociology, Schools in

Chapter · 2008 Cite

Review: Wilson Carey McWilliams, The Active Society Revisited

Other American Journal of Sociology · 2007 Cite

Pitirim A. Sorokin

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Civilization

Chapter · 2007 Cite

Sociological theory, constructal theory, and globalization

Conference Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics · January 1, 2007 Full text Cite

Defending the Durkheimian Tradition: Religion, Emotion and Morality

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews · September 2006 Full text Cite

Three Levels of Teaching Durkheim

Chapter · February 1, 2006 This chapter presents a pedagogical approach to Durkheim proposing three faces or three levels of Durkheim for undergraduate and graduate students. For the first level the students are given an initial exposure to Durkheim, typically through an introductor ... Full text Cite

Gabriel Tarde

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Alain Touraine

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Tradition

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Trois Salutations

Chapter · 2006 Cite

Tocqueville in New Orleans... before and after Katrina

Journal Article Sociation Today · 2006 Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New Orleans on New Year's Day 1832 and in his very brief stay made wide-ranging observations. His field work involved setting an historical context, noting the social institutions operative, and taking into account the norm ... Cite

Introduction:Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity and Ethnic Conflicts

Journal Article International Journal of Comparative Sociology · July 2004 Cite

Guest editor, special issue, Ethnicity, Ethnic Conflicts, Peace Processes: Comparative Perspectives

Journal Article International Journal of Comparative Sociology · 2004 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 2004 Cite

National Identity Issues in the New German Elites : A Study of German University Students

Journal Article International Journal of Comparative Sociology · November 2003 An empirical study of 544 German university students in West Germany, East Germany and Berlin. The focus is students' attitudes and perceptions of issues pertaining to nationalism, national identity, and inclusion of minorities. No significant differ ... Cite

Response [from Edward A. Tiryakian]

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · November 2003 Full text Cite

War and Modernity

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 2003 Full text Cite

Response to Harris

Other Contemporary Sociology · 2003 Cite

Review: Hans Joas, War and Modernity

Other Contemporary Sociology · 2003 Review essay ... Cite

The Modernity of Civilizations and the Civilization of Modernity

Conference The Transformation of the 21st Century & Life-Culture Salim · 2003 Cite

De Sainsaulieu à Zola par Gurvitch. L’ engagement intellectuel

Conference Construction d’identités, construction de sociétés · 2003 Cite

Editor, special issue, Rethinking Civilizational Analysis

Journal Article International Sociology · September 2001 Cite

Time to Change the Calendar? Sacred and Secular Problems of Crossing the Millennium

Journal Article International Review of Sociology/Revue Internationale de Sociologie: Space,Time and the Sacred I Modernity/Postmodernity · 2001 Cite

Introduction: The Civilization of Modernity and the Modernity of Civilizations

Journal Article International Sociology · January 1, 2001 “Civilization” has been a contested term since its inception in the 18th century. However, after the pioneering studies of Weber and Mauss, civilizational analysis dropped from sight in major reference works. The present issue is an endeavor to recapture t ... Full text Cite

Review: Niklas Luhmann, Observations on Modernity

Other Contemporary Sociology · November 2000 Cite

Observations on Modernity

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · November 2000 Full text Cite

Parsons's emergent Durkheims

Journal Article Sociological Theory · January 1, 2000 Parsons's training as an economist, his graduate stay at Heidelberg, and his participation in the Henderson seminar at Harvard provide major clues to his familiarity with Marshall, Pareto, and Weber - three of the four figures whose convergence forms the m ... Full text Cite

Faces of nationalism: Janus revisited.

Journal Article SOCIAL FORCES · September 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

Sociology

Journal Article The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · May 1, 1999 Full text Cite

Religion

Chapter · 1999 Cite

War: The covered side of modernity

Journal Article International Sociology · January 1, 1999 Although its presence is manifest in all modern societies - in politics, economics and popular culture as well as collective memory - was has indeed been a neglected topic of sociological research, though no discussion of modernity can be complete without ... Full text Cite

From LePlay to Today

Journal Article Comparative & Historical Sociology · October 1998 Cite

Secession, autonomy and modernity

Journal Article Society · July 1998 Full text Cite

Review: Saul Newman, Ethnoregional Conflict in Democracies: Mostly Ballots, Rarely Bullets

Other The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · March 1997 Cite

International Relations and Politics

Journal Article The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · March 1997 Full text Cite

The wild cards of modernity

Journal Article DAEDALUS · 1997 Cite

Envisioning the History of Sociological Thought; review of Donald N. Levine

Other Visions of the Sociological Tradition, in Sociological Forum · 1996 Cite

Three Metacultures of Modernity: Christian, Gnostic, Chthonic

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · January 1, 1996 Full text Cite

Envisioning the history of sociological thought

Journal Article Sociological Forum · January 1, 1996 Full text Cite

Ethnonationalism: The Quest for Understanding.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 1995 Full text Cite

Review: Jennifer M. Lehmann, Durkheim and Women

Other American Journal of Sociology · March 1995 Cite

Durkheim and Women.Jennifer M. Lehmann

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · March 1995 Full text Cite

Trois métacultures de la modernité: Chrétienne, gnostique, chthonienne,

Journal Article L'Univers de la Culture. Hommage à Fernand Dumont · 1995 Cite

Collective effervescence, social change and charisma: Durkheim, weber and 1989

Journal Article International Sociology · January 1, 1995 A meaningful interpretation of the dynamics of recent momentous historical changes - most notably the unexpected and surprising implosion of the Soviet empire in 1989-1990 - may be obtained by recombining aspects of the sociology of religion analyses of We ... Full text Cite

Modernization in a millenarian decade: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe

Conference SOCIAL CHANGE AND MODERNIZATION · January 1, 1995 Link to item Cite

Revisiting sociology's first classic:The division of labor in society and its actuality

Journal Article Sociological Forum · March 1, 1994 Durkheim's doctoral dissertation can justifiably be called sociology's first classic. Rereading it 100 years later enables us to see major domains of the contemporary world where its analysis remains, of actuality, heuristic or yet to be fully appreciated: ... Full text Cite

Special issue preface

Journal Article Sociological Forum · March 1, 1994 Full text Cite

The new worlds and sociology: An overview

Conference International Sociology · January 1, 1994 Since 1988 the world has witnessed unexpectedly massive changes and reforms, including the destructuring of the bipolar world of the Cold War era, the adoption of market economies to replace centrally planned economies, and the democratisation of authorita ... Full text Cite

White Women in Darkest Africa: Marginals as Observers in No-Woman's Land

Journal Article Civilisations (Brussels) Melanges Pierre Salmon: Histoire et ethnologie africaines · 1993 Cite

Nationalist Movements in Advanced Societies

Chapter · 1993 Working paper No. 163 ... Cite

Die Neuen Welten und die Soziologie: Eine Übersicht,

Journal Article Berliner Journal für Soziologie · 1993 Cite

American Religious Exceptionalism: A Reconsideration

Journal Article The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · January 1, 1993 The first part of this article deals with religion in the United States in the context of American exceptionalism. At least since Tocqueville, observers have noted that a distinctive national characteristic of the United States is its religious vitality. I ... Full text Cite

From Modernization to Globalization

Conference Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · September 1992 Full text Cite

L'Enseignement de la Sociologie aux Etats-Unis

Conference Actes de la Rencontre internationale sur l' Enseignement de la Sociologie · 1992 Cite

Book Reviews

Journal Article Theory, Culture & Society · November 1991 Full text Cite

Revolution: A Sociological Interpretation.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · September 1991 Full text Cite

Evaluating the Standard: An Introduction to Sociological Metrology

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 1991 Full text Cite

Modernisation: Exhumetur in pace: (Rethinking macrosociology in the 1990s)

Journal Article International Sociology · January 1, 1991 An important challenge for macrosociology in the 1990s is to account for the cluster of social movements in different post-World War II settings, most recently those that intend structural changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. To account for thes ... Full text Cite

Guest editor, Robert K. Merton in Review Symposium

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · 1991 Cite

FROM 1968 TO 1989 - SOCIOLOGY AND ANNUS-MIRABILIS

Conference SOTSIOLOGICHESKIE ISSLEDOVANIYA · January 1, 1991 Link to item Cite

Exegesis or Synthesis? Comments on 50 Years of the Structure of Social Action

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · September 1990 Full text Cite

National Traditions in Sociology.

Journal Article Social Forces · September 1990 Full text Cite

Review: Nikolai Genov, ed, National Traditions in Sociology

Other Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 1990 Cite

Gurvitch et Parsons: Maître et Maître d' Ecole

Journal Article Sociologia Internationalis · 1990 Cite

1968 en perspective-- l'ambiguÏté de la modernité,

Journal Article Revue de l'Institut de Sociologie (Belgium) · 1989 Cite

Sociology's Dostoyevski: Pitirim A. Sorokin,

Journal Article The World & I · September 1988 Cite

The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740-1830

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · March 1988 Full text Cite

Nationalism, Modernity, and Sociology,

Journal Article Sociologia Internationalis · 1988 Cite

Robert K. Merton: An Intellectual Profile.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · September 1987 Full text Cite

Letters

Journal Article The American Sociologist · March 1, 1987 Full text Cite

Review: Robert J. Brym, Anglo Canadian Sociology

Other Canadian Journal of Sociology · 1987 Cite

Review: Jacques Ellul, The Humiliation of the Word

Other Contemporary Sociology · November 1986 Cite

The Humiliation of the Word.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · November 1986 Full text Cite

Sociology's Great Leap Forward: The Challenge of Internationalization,

Journal Article International Sociology · June 1986 Cite

The Sacred and the Subversive: Political Witch-Hunts as National Rituals

Journal Article Review of Religious Research · March 1986 Full text Cite

Preface

Book · 1986 Cite

1984 + 1 ... Your Turn, Monsieur Tocqueville

Journal Article The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville · 1986 Cite

Review: Robert N. Bellah et al., Habits of the Heart

Other SA. Sociological analysis · 1986 Cite

L'Actualité Méthodologique de Gurvitch et de Mannheim,

Journal Article Recherches Sociologiques · September 1985 Cite

The Existential Self in Society.Joseph A. Kotarba , Andrea Fontana

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · September 1985 Full text Cite

The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul.Wayne A. Meeks

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · March 1985 Full text Cite

Georges Gurvitch

Chapter · 1985 Cite

Henri Saint Simon

Chapter · 1985 Cite

Jean Paul Sartre

Chapter · 1985 Cite

Pitirim A. Sorokin

Chapter · 1985 Cite

Le Sagittaire Inconnu

Chapter · 1985 Cite

Review: Wayne Meeks, The First Urban Christians

Other American Journal of Sociology · 1985 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 1985 Cite

Journal d'un sociologue américain au Québec: 1953-1978,

Journal Article Continuité et Rupture: Les Sciences Sociales au Quebéc · 1985 Cite

Review: Seymour Leventman, ed., Counterculture and Social Transformation

Other Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · September 1984 Cite

The Global Crisis Sociological Analyses and Responses

Journal Article International Journal of Comparative Sociology · 1984 Cite

Introduction

Chapter · 1984 Special double issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology ... Cite

The Global Crisis as an Interregnum of Modernity

Chapter · 1984 Special double issue of the International Journal of Comparative Sociology ... Cite

L'Anomie sexuelle en France avant la Révolution,

Journal Article Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie · 1984 Cite

The Global Crisis as an Interregnum of Modernity

Journal Article Comparative Sociology · January 1, 1984 Full text Cite

Sociology and The Global Crisis: An Introduction

Journal Article Comparative Sociology · January 1, 1984 Full text Cite

SEXUAL ANOMY IN FRANCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION

Journal Article CAHIERS INTERNATIONAUX DE SOCIOLOGIE · January 1, 1984 Link to item Cite

THE LOGIC AND LIMITS OF TRUST - BARBER,B

Journal Article SOCIETY · January 1, 1984 Link to item Cite

A Sop to Cerberus: Response to Besnard

Journal Article Social Forces · September 1982 Full text Cite

Contemporary Sociological Theory.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 1982 Full text Cite

Review: William R. Beer, The Unexpected Rebellion

Other Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 1982 Cite

Puritan america in the modern world: Mission impossible?

Journal Article Sociology of Religion: A Quarterly Review · January 1, 1982 Reflecting the attention Parsons gave to religion in relation to modernity, this paper reinterprets the significance of the Puritan ethic in modern America. It is first argued that a crucial feature of the Reformation was the Calvinist collapse of the trad ... Full text Cite

A (Sociological) Tale of Two Cities

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · November 1981 Full text Cite

Sexual Anomie in Prerevolutionary France

Conference Proceedings 1981 · 1981 Proceedings of The Consortium on Revolutionary Europe ... Cite

Guest editor, special issue, Durkheim Lives!

Journal Article Social Forces · 1981 Cite

Sexual anomie, social structure, societal change

Journal Article Social Forces · January 1, 1981 Although relegated to a minor place in his writings, Durkheim did consider aspects of sexuality and sexual regulations as basic features of social organization. This paper begins with an examination of sexual anomie in Suicide. Durkheim uncovered some unex ... Full text Cite

Sexual anomie in prerevolutionary France.

Journal Article Proceedings. Consortium on Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1850 · January 1981 Cite

Introduction: From wilson to durkheim

Journal Article Social Forces · January 1, 1981 Full text Cite

Post-Parsonian Sociology,

Journal Article Humboldt Journal of Social Relations · 1980 Cite

Quebec, Wales, and Scotland: Three Nations in Search of a State

Journal Article International Journal of Comparative Sociology · January 1, 1980 Full text Cite

Talcott Parsons (1902-1979),

Journal Article Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie · January 1980 Cite

THE MYTHOLOGIST AND THE SOCIOLOGIST

Journal Article MANKIND QUARTERLY · January 1, 1980 Link to item Cite

REDEEMING THE SIN - SOCIAL-SCIENCE AND LITERATURE - BORENSTEIN,A

Journal Article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1980 Cite

Beyond Words--African Style,

Journal Article review essay of The Jamaa and the Church: A Bantu Catholic Movement in Zaire, in Contemporary Sociology · July 1979 Cite

Beyond Words--African-Style

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 1979 Full text Cite

Emile Durkheim on Institutional Analysis.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 1979 Full text Cite

DURKHEIMIAN SCHOOL IN SEARCH OF LOST SOCIETY - NEWBORN SOCIOLOGY AND CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Journal Article CAHIERS INTERNATIONAUX DE SOCIOLOGIE · January 1, 1979 Link to item Cite

The Durkheimian School: A Systematic and Comprehensive Bibliography.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · July 1978 Full text Cite

The Time Perspectives of Modernity,

Journal Article Society and Leisure/Loisir et Société, · April 1978 Cite

Emile Durkheim

Chapter · 1978 Cite

Review: Anthony Giddens, New Rules of Sociological Method

Other American Jour¬nal of Sociology · 1978 Cite

La Fin d'une Illusion et l'Illusion de la Fin,

Journal Article Le Progr s en Question · 1978 Cite

IMPLICIT MEANINGS - ESSAYS IN ANTHROPOLOGY - DOUGLAS,M

Journal Article SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY · January 1, 1978 Link to item Cite

Les Mouvements Nationaux Régionaux,

Journal Article Etudes des Mouvements Nationaux Régionaux · 1977 Cite

On Discovering Durkheim

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · January 1977 Full text Cite

Review essay: Peter M. Blau, ed., Approaches to the Study of Social Structure

Other Administrative Science Quarterly · November 1976 Cite

Approaches to the Study of Social Structure.

Journal Article Administrative Science Quarterly · September 1976 Full text Cite

De l'Exotérique l'Esotérique: Vers un Nouveau Sens de la Modernité,

Journal Article Spécificité et Théorie Sociale Paris: Anthropos · 1976 Cite

ALTRUISM IN SOCIOLOGY

Journal Article Zygon® · January 1, 1976 Full text Cite

W. Robertson Smith and the Sociological Study of Religion.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · January 1976 Full text Cite

Neither Marx nor Durkheim . . . Perhaps Weber

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · July 1975 Full text Cite

Tradition, Change, and Modernity.

Journal Article Social Forces · June 1975 Full text Cite

Ecstasy: A Way of Knowing.

Journal Article Contemporary Sociology · March 1975 Full text Cite

Review: Werner J. Cahnman, ed., Ferdinand Tonnies: A New Evaluation

Other Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 1975 Cite

Review: Ernest Wallwork, Durkheim: Morality and Milieu

Other Journal of the American Academy of Religion · 1975 Cite

Review: Andrew M. Greeley, Ecstasy: A Way of Knowing

Other Contemporary Sociology · 1975 Cite

Review: David Sudnow, ed., Studies in Social Interaction

Other Social forces; a scientific medium of social study and interpretation · 1974 Cite

Review: Steven Lukes, Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work

Other American Journal of Sociology · 1974 Cite

Reflections on the Sociology of Civilizations,

Journal Article Sociological Analysis · 1974 Cite

Contestation de la Rationalité: Progrès ou Régres?,

Journal Article Croissance et Développement: Analyse Multidisciplinaire · 1974 Cite

Sociological Perspectives on the Stranger

Journal Article Soundings · 1973 Cite

Review: Charles W. Lachenmeyer The Language of Sociology

Other American Journal of Sociology · 1973 Cite

'Esotérisme et Exotérisme en Sociologie' (La Sociologie dans l'Ere Du Verseau)

Journal Article Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie · 1972 Cite

Toward the Sociology of Esoteric Culture,

Journal Article American Journal of Sociology · 1972 Cite

Review: Gabriel Tarde, On Communication and Social Influence

Other American Journal of Sociology · 1971 Cite

Review: Alvin Gouldner, The Coming Crisis of Sociology

Other Journal of Scientific Study of Religion · 1971 Cite

Structural Sociology

Chapter · 1970 Cite

Sociologismo y Existencialismo

Journal Article Sociologism and Existenciaialismo · 1969 Cite

Sociological Reflections on Theological Education,

Journal Article The Duke Divinity School Review · March 1968 Cite

Pitirim A. Sorokin,

Journal Article Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie · 1968 Cite

Review: Erving Goffman, Interaction Ritual

Other American Sociological Review, · 1968 Cite

Pitirim A. Sorokin,

Journal Article International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences · 1968 Cite

Typological Classification,

Journal Article International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences · 1968 Cite

Sociological Realism: Partition for South Africa?,

Journal Article Social Forces · December 1967 Cite

On the Relationship of Student and University,

Journal Article Duke Alumni Register · August 1967 Cite

Le Sacré et le Profane dans la Destruction Coloniale et Construction Nationale,

Journal Article Revue de l'Institut de Sociologie · 1967 Cite

Le Premier Message d'Emile Durkheim,

Journal Article Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie · 1967 Cite

Reply to Kolaja and Berger,

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1966 Cite

Existential phenomenology and the sociological tradition.

Journal Article American sociological review · October 1965 Cite

Introduction to a Bibliographical Focus on Emile Durkheim,

Journal Article Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1964 Cite

Durkheim's 'Two Laws of Penal Evolution',

Journal Article Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1964 Cite

Review: Pitirim A. Sorokin, A Long Journey

Other American Sociological Review · 1964 Cite

Review: Medard Ross, Psychoanalysis and Daseinsanalysis

Other American Sociological Review · 1963 Cite

An Important Addition to Princeton's Africana,

Journal Article The Princeton University Library Chronicle · 1962 Cite

Review: Georges Gurvitch, Dialectique et Sociologie

Other American Sociological Review · 1962 Cite

Durkheim and Ethics,

Journal Article American Sociological Review · 1960 Cite

Apartheid and Politics in South Africa,

Journal Article The Journal of Politics · 1960 Cite

Occupational Satisfaction and Aspiration in an Underdeveloped Country: The Philippines,

Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change · 1959 Cite

Apartheid and Religion,

Journal Article Theology Today · 1957 Cite

Review: Samuel Koenig, Man and Society

Other American Scientist · 1957 Cite

Apartheid and Education in the Union of South Africa,

Journal Article Harvard Educational Review · 1955 Cite

Review Essay: Mary Douglas, Implicit Meanings

Other The Sociological Quarterly Cite