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May 7, 2020 · In sociology’s early days, morality or ethics—la morale in France, Ethik in Germany—was the center of attention. The concern with this topic, or rather range of topics, was general and can be seen in the writings of Herbert Spencer, Edward Westermarck, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and Émile Durkheim.
Sep 14, 2007 · In this article I address the two main problems in the sociology of morality: (1) the problem of moral truth, and (2) the problem of value freedom. I identify two ideal–typical approaches. While the Weberian paradigm rejects the concept of moral truth, the Durkheimian paradigm accepts it.
- Gabriel Abend
- g-abend@northwestern.edu
- 2008
Aug 24, 2007 · Max Weber. First published Fri Aug 24, 2007; substantive revision Wed Sep 21, 2022. Arguably the foremost social theorist of the twentieth century, Max Weber is known as a principal architect of modern social science along with Karl Marx and Emil Durkheim. Weber’s wide-ranging contributions gave critical impetus to the birth of new academic ...
Sep 27, 2017 · 1. One exception to this is Abend (Citation 2008), who, in his separation of Weberian and Durkheimian approaches to morality, places Bauman in the latter category. However, Abend’s discussion concerns questions of truth and normativity, on which Bauman is closer to Durkheim, rather than the sources of morality, on which he is seen to disagree.
- Matt Dawson
- 2017
Abend ultimately rejects Durkheim’s approach, in favour of a Weberian conception of morality, but his analysis can be seen as underestimating the significance of homo duplex in Durkheim’s work. In defence of Abend, Durkheim does express worries about modernity which might appear to support the suggestion of a countertrend in his analysis.
Weberian perspective of value-oriented social action—or letting other disciplines take over. Durkheim's moral sociology may even appear split in two, composed on one hand of a sort of sociological morality, that of the moralist or prophet that the sociologist sometimes seems to
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Durkheim's Legacy. Durkheim's views on modernity and the problem of meaning proceed in the context of a polemic against traditionalists (e.g., Bonald and Maistre) and modernists (e.g., lib- eral philosophes, republicans, and socialists). Both traditionalists and modernists held that modernity signals a break from the past.
