Ahlak Eğitimi, Durkheim'ın Sorbonne Üniversitesi'nde 1902-1903 öğretim yılında verdiği dersleri bir araya getiren bir kitaptır. Durkheim, bu dersleri Bordeaux Üniversitesi'ndeki derslerinde de tekrarlamıştı. Ahlak eğitimi, Durkheim'ın özellikle üzerinde durduğu bir konu olarak görünmektedir.
Toplam on sekiz dersten oluşan çalışma, Durkheim'ın öğrencilerine derste yaptığı konuşmaların pek az değişiklikle yazıya aktarılmış halidir. Durkheim, derslerini olduğu gibi (in extenso) yazmayı yeğlemiştir. Bu nedenle metinde kimi kopmalar ve yazı dilinden uzaklaşmalar görülse de, bu durum derslerin öneminden hiçbir şey kaybettirmemektedir. Çünkü topluma yeni katılacak bireylerin eğitimi, her çağda ve her ülkede can alıcı önemde olmuştur.
Toplum, tarihin şu ya da bu evresinde içinde büyüttüğü bireylerin eseri olmadığı gibi, toplumun üzerinde yer aldığı toprağın eseri de değildir; öncelikle düşüncelerin ve duyguların bir bütünüdür. Toplum bir bilinçtir, ortaklaşa yaşamanın bilincidir. Öyleyse çocuğun ruhuna aktarılması gereken...
Much of Durkheim's work was concerned with how societies could maintain their integrity and coherence in modernity; an era in which traditional social and religious ties are no longer assumed, and in which new social institutions have come into being. His first major sociological work was The Division of Labor in Society (1893). In 1895, he published his Rules of the Sociological Method and set up the first European department of sociology, becoming France's first professor of sociology.
In 1896, he established the journal L'Année Sociologique. Durkheim's seminal monograph, Suicide (1897), a study of suicide rates amongst Catholic and Protestant populations, pioneered modern social research and served to distinguish social science from psychology and political philosophy. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), presented a theory of religion, comparing the social and cultural lives of aboriginal and modern societies.
Durkheim was also deeply preoccupied with the acceptance of sociology as a legitimate science. He refined the positivism originally set forth by Auguste Comte, promoting what could be considered as a form of epistemological realism, as well as the use of the hypothetico-deductive model in social science. For him, sociology was the science of institutions,[citation needed] its aim being to discover structural social facts. Durkheim was a major proponent of structural functionalism, a foundational perspective in both sociology and anthropology. In his view, social science should be purely holistic; that is, sociology should study phenomena attributed to society at large, rather than being limited to the specific actions of individuals.
He remained a dominant force in French intellectual life until his death in 1917, presenting numerous lectures and published works on a variety of topics, including the sociology of knowledge, morality, social stratification, religion, law, education, and deviance. Durkheimian terms such as "collective consciousness" have since entered the popular lexicon.
كتاب ثقيل جدا اسلوب دوركهايم بسبب محاضرات كان جاف شوية لكنه دقيق و علمي جدا بتحيل و يقدم افكار جميلة منه تفسير الاخلاق هي حدود يضعه فرد لنفسه و قته تكون فكرته ضد الحرية المطلقة بل انسان الخلوق هو شخص يختار حدود حريته و صعوبة دوركهايم ما اقنعني فيه فكرة المجتمع كيان موجود و هو ينتقد من يقول ان المجتمع مفهوم مجرد مخلوق من ذرات باقي اميل لفكرة ان المجتمع ذرات و الي مين يخلق المجتمع بتحديد و يخلينا ان نشعر بالفهم العام هو سؤال صعب حتى فكرة ذرية ممكن افهمه بالكتب مقدسة لكن لا افهم كيف المجتمع يخلق سلوك مشترك و نحس ان هل مجتمع عنده بديهيات هل قضية صعبة جدا و ما سبب احترام شخص للخير حسيت الكاتب جوابه اقرب لشخص لا يريد يخلق زعزة اجتماعية و فجاب جواب غريب عن احترام بشكل عام كتاب جميل
I actually read the book as a refresher to understand today’s current society and in particular the younger generation. As an Montessori educator morality is a big aspect of the classroom. I enjoyed the part of secular education as it gave me food for thought as to why so many children these days lack morals and I will add to this the lack or ethics and values!
Além de muito bem escrito, são apresentadas diversas ideias que continuam relevantes para o pensamento da sociedade. O que o livro não tem em profundidade, ele tem em abrangência.