Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on texts and references -- Introduction: sociology and its history -- CHAPTER 1 The reform that contained all other reforms -- THE COALITION OF THE THIRD ESTATE -- THE NEW ANTICLERICALISM -- CHAPTER 2 The subtlety of things -- THE PREEMINENCE OF BOOKS -- THE PREEMINENCE OF STYLE -- THE PREEMINENCE OF THINGS -- DISCIPLINE, ATTACHMENT, AND AUTONOMY -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORALITY IN THE CHILD -- CHAPTER 3 The perfection of personality -- VICTOR COUSIN AND THE CLASSE DE PHILOSOPHIE -- THE SCIENCE OF MIND -- THE SCIENCE OF ENDS -- BOUTROUX, FUSTEL, AND RENOUVIER -- CHAPTER 4 A l'école des choses -- THE FRENCH ADMIRATION FOR GERMAN SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION -- DURKHEIM IN GERMANY -- THE POSITIVE SCIENCE OF ETHICS IN GERMANY -- WUNDT AND EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY IN GERMANY -- WUNDT'S ETHIK (1886) -- DURKHEIM'S "POSITIVE SCIENCE OF ETHICS" -- CHAPTER 5 The yoke of necessity -- AMBIVALENT CARTESIANS -- THE NATURE OF SOCIAL THINGS -- THE CONDITION OF HAPPINESS -- SOCIAL REALISM AS SECULAR THEODICY -- Conclusion: sociology and irony -- References -- Index.