Sabbatical Dick Houtman: Whatever Happened to Classical Cultural Sociology? Salvaging the Lost Treasures of Durkheim and Weber KU Leuven
During the sabbatical period I will work on a book project about the flawed reception of the classical sociology of culture of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, which is mainly found in their sociology of religion (and in Weber's case equally in his scientific theory). This flawed reception has resulted in an intellectual dominance of a cultural sociology that treats culture as little more than an ideology that justifies, perpetuates and ...