Although long recognized as a formative influence on Durkheim's theory of religion, Fustel de Coulanges' contributions to Durkheim's thinking on social morphology have not been accorded the ...

Durkheim's approach to the sociocultural aspects of religion enables one to postulate that for industrial society, nationalism is a religion that fosters solidarity. Industrial nationalism differs ...

Much of our effort in business and beyond is focused on creating an ordered society, centralized or decentralized, autocratic or democratic, manual or mechanical. Even with the infiltration of ...

Globally, we are currently experiencing tremendous social and political turbulence. At the institutional level, liberal democracy faces the threat of rising authoritarianism and far-right extremism.

In general, death is a social taboo in post-industrial, consumerist society. Nobody is supposed to talk about it in public. It is anathema – though, in comparison, pornography is not. This evasion is ...