Durkheim's Sentiments For Late Modernity

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Abstract

While Durkheim is often viewed as a conservative theorist, his work contains many crucial elements that could, and have, proven fruitful for developments within the critical perspective; one such perspective is late modernity. The connection between Durkheim’s work and late modernity is both obvious and acknowledged (Young, 1999/2007). This piece seeks to add to the discussion of these more obvious connections while striving to uncover other, potentially less obvious, influences from Durkheim’s work on the late modern perspective.

Author

• F. Matt Jones, University of Central Oklahoma