Trata-se de uma interpretação dos ensaios nos quais Theodor Adorno criticou autores clássicos da sociologia e discutiu problemas sociológicos de seu tempo. Tal investigação não se destinou em detectar as influências que determinados autores por ventura tenham desempenhado sobre o pensamento de Theodor Adorno, mas demonstrar como a sua teoria social pode ser reconstituída a partir de sua crítica à tradição sociológica. Pretende-se demonstrar que ao tratar da história da sociologia, ao posicionar-se ante as polêmicas e controvérsias científicas, Adorno efetua um alargamento do âmbito da experiência sociológica e leva às últimas consequências o projeto de compreender o processo social através da crítica ao pensamento sociológico moderno. Pode-se afirmar que Adorno nas polêmicas contra o positivismo na sociologia alemã, em suas análises a respeito da obra de Auguste Comte, na interpretação dos trabalhos de Émile Durkheim, através da crítica imanente visa à construção de uma teoria crítica que se compõe a partir da crítica da tradição sociológica. / This text is a interpretation of the essays in which Theodor Adorno criticizes classic authors of sociology and discusses the sociological problems of his time. This investigation dont have the aim of to detect the influences that certain authors by chance would have over the Theodor Adornos thoughts, but to show how his social theory can be rebuilt starting from his criticism of the sociological tradition. I intend to show that, by dealing with the sociologys history, positioning himself before the scientific polemics and controversies, Adorno perform a widening the comprehension of the sociological experience leading to the last consequences the project of understanding of the social processes through the criticism to modern sociological thought.I can assert that Adorn, in the polemics against the positivism in German sociology, in his analysis about the Auguste Comtes work, in the interpretation of Émile Durkheims works, through of immanent criticism, seeks to build a critical theory, which constitutes itself starting from the criticism to sociological tradition.

Trata-se de uma interpretação dos ensaios nos quais Theodor Adorno criticou autores clássicos da sociologia e discutiu problemas sociológicos de seu tempo. Tal investigação não se destinou em detectar as influências que determinados autores por ventura tenham desempenhado sobre o pensamento de Theodor Adorno, mas demonstrar como a sua teoria social pode ser reconstituída a partir de sua crítica à tradição sociológica. Pretende-se demonstrar que ao tratar da história da sociologia, ao posicionar-se ante as polêmicas e controvérsias científicas, Adorno efetua um alargamento do âmbito da experiência sociológica e leva às últimas consequências o projeto de compreender o processo social através da crítica ao pensamento sociológico moderno. Pode-se afirmar que Adorno nas polêmicas contra o positivismo na sociologia alemã, em suas análises a respeito da obra de Auguste Comte, na interpretação dos trabalhos de Émile Durkheim, através da crítica imanente visa à construção de uma teoria crítica que se compõe a partir da crítica da tradição sociológica. / This text is a interpretation of the essays in which Theodor Adorno criticizes classic authors of sociology and discusses the sociological problems of his time. This investigation dont have the aim of to detect the influences that certain authors by chance would have over the Theodor Adornos thoughts, but to show how his social theory can be rebuilt starting from his criticism of the sociological tradition. I intend to show that, by dealing with the sociologys history, positioning himself before the scientific polemics and controversies, Adorno perform a widening the comprehension of the sociological experience leading to the last consequences the project of understanding of the social processes through the criticism to modern sociological thought.I can assert that Adorn, in the polemics against the positivism in German sociology, in his analysis about the Auguste Comtes work, in the interpretation of Émile Durkheims works, through of immanent criticism, seeks to build a critical theory, which constitutes itself starting from the criticism to sociological tradition.

The purpose of this essay is to illustrate whether certain phenomena are connected to religion or to culture. This investigation is backed up by literature and four interviews with people with different religious backgrounds, thus coming to a conclusion about how the differences between religion and culture are viewed based on the participants background. The participants are Christian, Muslim, Jehovah's witnesses and an atheist. Among the answers from these people, we have discovered that almost all of the participants mentioned how ethnic Swedes (in the Swedish society) are most often the ones who do not understand the difference between religion and culture. The result we received from the interviews was that, unfortunately, ignorance is present among many people who do not understand the difference between religion and culture. The result from the literature gave us a clear answer on how the misunderstanding between religion and culture happened. According to Isak Svensson the misunderstanding many times is about ignorance and confusion.

Prior to Germany’s emergence as an imperial power in 1884, scholarly knowledge of the Orient was only deemed useful to a handful of academics, largely in part because oriental scholarship’s primary emphasis was the study of classical languages and ancient manuscripts. German colonialism, on the other hand, required the creation of a new body of oriental knowledge, one that was firmly rooted in the contemporary world instead of antiquity. In 1907, Carl Heinrich Becker published Christianity and Islam, one of the first pieces of scholarship to examine the modern Orient with a modern methodology. In particular, it was Becker’s adoption of the sociology of religion, a concept pioneered by Max Weber and Émile Durkheim, which allowed him to interpret the modern Orient in a way not previously possible under the philological tradition that defined oriental studies for previous generations of scholars.

This work constitutes a macro-sociological study of suicide. The empirical focus is on suicide mortality in Russia, which is among the highest in the world and has, moreover, developed in a dramatic manner over the second half of the 20th century. Suicide mortality in contemporary Russia is here placed within the context of development over a longer time period through empirical studies on 1) the general and sex- and age-specific developments in suicide over the period 1870–2007, 2) underlying dynamics of Russian suicide mortality 1956–2005 pertaining to differences between age groups, time periods, and particular generations and 3) the continuity in the aggregate-level relationship between heavy alcohol consumption and suicide mortality from late Tsarist period to post-World War II Russia. In addition, a fourth study explores an alternative to Émile Durkheim’s dominating macro-sociological perspective on suicide by making use of Niklas Luhmann’s theory of social systems. With the help of Luhmann’s macro-sociological perspective it is possible to consider suicide and its causes also in terms of processes at the individual level (i.e. at the level of psychic systems) in a manner that contrasts with the ‘holistic’ perspective of Durkheim. The results of the empirical studies show that Russian suicide mortality, despite its exceptionally high level and dramatic changes in the contemporary period, shares many similarities with the patterns seen in Western countries when examined over a longer time period. Societal modernization in particular seems to have contributed to the increased rate of suicide in Russia in a manner similar to what happened earlier in Western Europe. In addition, the positive relationship between heavy alcohol consumption and suicide mortality proved to be remarkably stable across the past one and a half centuries. These results were interpreted using the Luhmannian perspective on suicide developed in this work.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:20:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ana Helena Rodrigues Mellim.pdf: 493359 bytes, checksum: bc230e330cea7595ba0df1a53326a22c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-06 / Durkheim´s thought considers crime as a social fact, equipped with qualities as generality, social coercion and exteriority. Present in any society. In making its analysis, argues that crime has its importance in the evolution of society, when in normal standards. Finally, it's worth as a reaffirmation of social values, confirming the norm and ensuring social cohesion. In the wake of Durkheim's thought about the notion of cohesion and crime as a normal social fact, the Chicago School brings important contribution to Criminal Sociology, identifying crime as a fact, contrary to what preached criminological positivism, which related the commitment of crime with certain biological characteristics of the offender. The disenchantment with the classical theories, whether retributive or preventive, in view of their total practical failure to address the growing crime, left the sentence as having only a remnant according to the symbolic, to reaffirm the rule and social order, at the expense, often the "scapegoat", as has been happening in recent years in Brazil, with enactment of laws purely symbolic. It is thus possible to recognize the thought of Durkheim in modern criminal functionalism and even its inffluence in criminal law of the Enemy / O pensamento de Durkheim considera o crime como fato social normal, dotado de generalidade, coerção social e exterioridade. Presente em toda e qualquer sociedade. Ao proceder à sua análise, sustenta que o crime tem sua importância na evolução da sociedade, quando em taxas e em números normais. Por fim, trata da pena como reafirmação dos valores sociais, confirmando a norma e garantindo a coesão social. Na esteira do pensamento de Durkheim acerca da noção de coesão e crime enquanto fato social normal, a Escola de Chicago traz importante contribuição para a Sociologia Criminal, ao identificar o crime enquanto fato, ao contrário do que pregava o positivismo criminológico, que relacionava o crime com certas características biológicas do infrator. O desencantamento com as teorias clássicas, quer retributivas, quer preventivas, tendo em vista seu total fracasso prático para fazer frente à crescente criminalidade, deixou à pena como possuindo única e remanescente função a simbólica, para reafirmar a norma e a ordem social, às custas, muitas vezes, de bodes expiatórios , como vem acontecendo nos últimos anos no Brasil, com edição de leis puramente simbólicas. É possível, assim, reconhecer o pensamento de Durkheim no funcionalismo penal moderno e até mesmo imaginar sua influência no chamado Direito Penal do Inimigo, última etapa do funcionalismo de Günther Jakobs

The main subject of the presented work is the question of power within the context of sociological theory, and in relation to the mechanism of psychological mimesis and the phenomenon of the sacred. Our starting point is René Girard's mimetic theory, which systematizes the relationship between the mechanism of psychological mimesis and the sacred - in the light of the phenomenon of violence. We, firstly, present Girard's mimetic theory, explicate its main concepts, and situate all into a broader context. Further, we critically examine Girard's theoretical scheme and come to the conclusion that his theoretical and conceptual framework calls for a revision, if it is to be utilized within the context of sociology and social theory. Consequently, we try to "sociologize" Girard's thinking. First, we position his line of thought into the wider sociological context, and then examine his theory in the light of thinking of two classical sociologists, Gabriel Tarde and Émile Durkheim. We then project this examination into a theoretical and conceptual synthesis on the basis of which we formulate our own conceptual scheme, which is based on the assumption of psychological mimesis as an anthropological constant, and which overcomes the main shortcomings of Girard's theoretical framework. On the basis of this...

O escopo desta dissertação é fazer um estudo teórico e conceitual da obra de Émile Durkheim no que se refere à questão educacional e verificar em que medida seus escritos contribuem para a compreensão do ensino superior do Brasil contemporâneo, o qual está submetido às leis e às regulamentações do poder público. Apresentam-se o método e o objeto da Sociologia de Durkheim, propondo comparações entre a perspectiva sociológica educacional clássica ou tradicional do pensador e a humanista, que vige no Brasil contemporâneo. Focaliza-se a moralidade relacionada à educação na obra de Durkheim como um ato que atende aos interesses da sociedade, enquanto estruturas formais da razão, não da religião. Os indivíduos são socializados tornando-se conscientes da necessidade da adesão voluntária às regras impostas socialmente, que são determinantes dos deveres do estudante, e que se assemelham às regras que prescrevem a conduta do adulto. A educação moral insere-se em toda a vida escolar do discente. Também são analisados acordos internacionais, globalização das políticas educacionais e a transformação da educação em fonte de investimentos, que caracterizaram as últimas décadas do século XX e início do século XXI, quando a teoria do capital humano foi recuperada e aplicada no âmbito educacional, associando a escolarização superior à consecução de competências que possibilitam a ascensão social. Nessa perspectiva, o que importa é a inserção no mercado de trabalho, enquanto uma imposição do sistema vigente sobre a formação do capital humano, aliada a adequação dos alunos aos preceitos neoliberais, em que a competência e a obtenção de habilidades são mais relevantes que o conhecimento histórico-científico capaz de transformar, por meio do processo de escolarização, o modo de pensar a realidade. / The scope of this dissertation is to make a theoretical and conceptual study of the work of Émile Durkheim with regard to the educational question and to verify to what extent his writings contribute to the understanding of the higher education of contemporary Brazil, which is subject to the laws and regulations Of public power. The method and object of Durkheim's Sociology are presented, proposing comparisons between the classical or traditional educational sociological perspective of the thinker and the humanist, which is present in contemporary Brazil. It focuses on education-related morality in Durkheim's work as an act that serves the interests of society as formal structures of reason, not religion. Individuals are socialized by becoming aware of the need for voluntary adherence to socially imposed rules that are determinant of the student's duties and which resemble the rules that prescribe adult conduct. Moral education is embedded throughout the student's school life. International agreements, globalization of education policies and the transformation of education into an investment source, which characterized the last decades of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century, were also analyzed, when human capital theory was recovered and applied in the educational sphere, associating Higher education to the achievement of skills that enable social ascension. In this perspective, what matters is the insertion in the labor market, while an imposition of the current system on the formation of human capital, coupled with the students' suitability to the neoliberal precepts, in which competence and the attainment of skills are more relevant than the historical-scientific knowledge capable of transforming, through the process of schooling, the way of thinking reality. / Dissertação (Mestrado)

Cette thèse examine, depuis une perspective durkheimienne, le conflit politique en Allemagne sur le multiculturalisme, l’immigration, et l’identité nationale. L’analyse se fait dans la période entre le début de la crise des réfugiés en 2015 et l’élection fédérale allemande de septembre 2017. J’identifie quatre idéaux moraux, soit des visions idéales de la communauté allemande qui motivent les acteurs politique : l’idéal des Autonomen qui rejettent tout forme de pouvoir et de domination, l’idéal du Verfassungspatriotismus (le patriotisme constitutionnel) de la SPD (et une partie de la CDU), l’idéal de la nation (ethno)culturelle de la plupart de l’AfD (et la CSU et la WerteUnion), et l’idéal de la nation biologique de l’extrême droite. Au cœur de chaque idéal est un objet sacré qui sert d’autorité morale qui légitimant des prescriptions morales et qui amène à une série de vérités morales et de jugements moraux, la totalité duquel Émile Durkheim identifie comme un fait moral. Pour les Autonomen et les adhérents du Verfassungspatriotismus, l’objet sacré est l’individu conçu à travers le concept de la dignité humaine. Pour les autres, l’objet sacré est la nation allemande, conçue en termes (ethno)culturels ou en termes biologiques. Cette thèse argumente que ces idéaux moraux sont intrinsèquement profanatoires, dans le sens que les prescriptions morales d’un objet sacré (la dignité humaine) violent directement l’objet sacré de l’autre (la nation), et vice-versa. Ces idéaux sont tous en concurrence pour le pouvoir et l’influence, avec comme but d’avoir accès au pouvoir étatique allemand. Le résultat est un conflit politique qui traduit essentiellement un conflit moral. Ces conflits ont lieu dans le domaine légal, au sein des partis politique, et à travers la violence politique. Ces conflits touchent un nombre de sujets clés comme la liberté d’expression, le multiculturalisme, et l’extrémisme politique. La présente thèse cherche à comprendre ces conflits à travers le prisme du concept durkheimien du fait moral, et développe une sociologie du conflit moral durkheimien. Cette thèse s’inspire également de la théorie de conflit de Randall Collins, qui s’inspire elle aussi de l’œuvre de Durkheim. / This dissertation examines, from a Durkheimian perspective, political conflict in Germany around the issues of multiculturalism, immigration, and national identity within the context of the Refugee Crisis beginning in 2015 and ending roughly with the German Federal Election in September 2017. It identifies four moral ideals, or ideal visions of the German community, that motivated political actors during this period: the Autonomen ideal that rejects all forms of power and domination; the ideal of Verfassungspatriotismus (Constitutional Patriotism) of the SPD (and parts of the CDU); the ideal of the cultural or ethnocultural nation of much of the AfD (and the CSU and WerteUnion); and the ideal of the biological nation on the far-right. At the heart of each moral ideal is a sacred object that serves as a moral authority that legitimates certain moral prescriptions, and leads to a set of moral truths and moral judgments, the totality of which Émile Durkheim identifies as a moral fact. For the Autonomen and adherents of Verfassungspatriotismus the sacred object is the individual understood through the concept of human dignity. For others the sacred object is the German nation, understood either in an (ethno)cultural sense or a biological sense. As the dissertation argues, these different moral ideals are inherently profanatory to each other, such that the moral prescriptions inspired by one sacred object (human dignity) directly violate the sacred object of the other (the nation), and vice-versa. These ideals all compete with each other for power and influence within the German political sphere as a means to gain access to (or to dismantle) state power. The result is political conflict that takes place essentially within a moral framework. These conflicts occur in the legal domain, in battles over party leadership and membership, and through political violence; they touch on a number of key issues such as free speech, multiculturalism, and political extremism. This dissertation seeks to understand these conflicts through the prism of Durkheim’s concept of the moral fact and to develop a Durkheimian sociology of moral conflict. In this analysis, the dissertation draws on Randall Collins’ conflict theory, which Durkheim’s work also largely inspires.