Collective Consciousness, Morphology, and Collective Representations: Durkheim's Sociology of Knowledge, 1894-1900

This paper gives an overview of Durkheim's ideas concerning knowledge in the broad sense in the period indicated. It shows that the notion of collective consciousness was abandoned, and the principle of morphological determinism was retained, largely for rhetorical purposes. Durkheim's con...

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