Includes bibliographical references (pages 370-392) and index.
Introduction: The problem -- pt. I. Religion and Nature as the Origins of Society. 1. The machine for the creation of gods. 2. Crimes and punishments. 3. A science difficult to name -- pt. II. The Power of the Idea. 4. Social 'big bangs'. 5. The genius of capitalism. 6. The mana and the numina -- pt. III. One of the Greatest Mysteries in the World. 7. The science of forms. 8. Money as passion and as representation. 9. The world that has vanished.
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Argues that movements, crises and other phenomena produced in society cannot be explained by exclusively social causes, without recourse to psychological explanations. This book was the winner of the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Theory in 1988.
Machine à faire des dieux.
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Social psychology.
Sociology.
Psychologie sociale.
Sociologie.
70.02 philosophy and theory of the social sciences.