In the first part of this paper I established Durkheim’s intense dissatisfaction with the materialism of his earlier work. I demonstrated also how the series of critical reviews of this work embarrassed Durkheim and crystallized his desire to revise his theory. Finally, I showed how a much more subjectivist theory emerged in the 18931896 period. In this second part, I argue that these developme...

3 "I believe that what may be called classic social analysis is a definable and usable set of traditions; that its essential feature is the concern with historical social structures; and that its problems are of direct relevance to urgent public issues and insistent human troubles. "-C. Wright Mills (1959) 4 Acknowledgments I wish to thank my colleagues, particularly Drs. David Newcomb and Lill...