Building on Fox Keller’s acute genealogy of the nature–nurture opposition as located in a certain specific social, cultural, and political history in the late nineteenth century (2010), in this paper, I address a parallel problem: the making of a really modern (i.e., non-biological) sociology nearly at the same time as the “hard disjunction” (Keller, 2010) between heredity and the environment, ...

This article is an attempt to contribute a view on the economic crisis from classical sociology, a voice often missing from the sociological response to the crisis. The work of Émile Durkheim provides a unique perspective here centred on morality and inequality produced in a historical context akin to our neoliberal times. It is argued there are four key points to take from Durkheim’s work. Fir...

The paper explores Durkheim?s ambivalent position towards psychology, drawing on his debates with Comte, Tarde, and Wundt. In addressing this issue, we propose different types of anti-psychologism in sociology: epistemological (excluding psychological dimensions from sociological explanations), institutional (denying psychology the status science), strategic (establishing sociology as a scienti...

tructuralism and network analysis have a long and distinguished history in communication and the social sciences. Spencer (1982) and Durkheim (1964) in sociology, Radcliff-Brown (1959) in anthropology, Piaget (1971) in cognitive development, and de Saussure (1966) in linguistics all pioneered structuralism in their respective fields. Monge and Eisenberg (1987) trace the history of organizational