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Article: The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- June 22, 2001
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The Development of Durkheim's Social Realism. By Robert Alun Jones. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 324. $37.50.)
Sixty years ago Talcott Parsons argued that the writings of Vilfredo Pareto, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim converge on a conceptual scheme in which human action is both intentional and constrained by socially shared and transmitted norms. Parsons was a working sociologist, attempting to construct a theoretical framework that would comprehend and order the research of his contemporaries, and his readers heard the voices of Pareto, Weber, and Durkheim only as they were amplified, filtered, and distorted by that ...