tic, and itself as committed to freedom. This is paradoxical, because sociology has emphasized social conditioning in much the same way that academic psychology used to believe in behaviourist conditioning. Just as Pavlov’s dogs were individually conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell, so sociologists have tended to teach that human beings are socially conditioned. One of the founders o...

Prior to Germany’s emergence as an imperial power in 1884, scholarly knowledge of the Orient was only deemed useful to a handful of academics, largely in part because oriental scholarship’s primary emphasis was the study of classical languages and ancient manuscripts. German colonialism, on the other hand, required the creation of a new body of oriental knowledge, one that was firmly rooted in ...

Este artigo pretende demonstrar como a sociologia da moral de Durkheim é uma continuação e superação (sociológica) certos pontos centrais teoria Kant, as ideias autonomia reino dos fins; propor, por conseguinte, chave para compreensão própria dimensão normativa durkheimiana, que possui tanto peso quanto etapa analítica precede.