Durkheimian Studies [SEP] publisher
Durkheimian Studies
Durkheimian Studies/Études Durkheimiennes is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Berghahn Books on behalf of the British Centre for Durkheimian Studies. It covers research on all aspects of the work of Émile Durkheim and his group and with the contemporary development and application of their ideas to issues in the social sciences, religion, and philosophy.
Abstracting and indexing.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- Anthropological Index
- International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities and Social
and in English in 1966. In Durkheimian fashion, Escarpit aimed to concern himself only with the externally defined 'social facts' of literature, especially those registered in the book trade. His focus fell on the 'community of writers', understood in aggregate as 'generations' and 'teams'. He extended the definition of literature to include all 'non-functional' writing and also insisted that literary success resulted from 'a convergence of intentions between author and reader'.
Analogously empirical studies of the sociology of