Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments I: Creating a Niche 1: Interpreting Durkheim 2: Durkheim on the Division of Intellectual Labor II: The Explanation Goals and Methods of Inquiry of Durkheim's Research Program 3: Social Facts and Collective Representations 4: Durkheim's Concept of Sociological Explanation 5: Durkheim on Method III: An Analysis of Durkheim's Major Empirical Works 6: The Division of Labor in Society 7: Suicide 8: The Elementary' Forms of the Religious Life IV: An Evaluation of Durkheim's Sociological Research Program 9: Conclusion Notes References Index