Durkheim : the man, his time, and his intellectual background / Henri Peyre -- Individualism and socialism in Durkheim / Joseph Neyer -- Conscience collective and culture / Paul Bohannan -- The development of Durkheim's concept of ritual and the problem of social disrelationships / Hugh Dalziel Duncan -- Durkheim's contribution to the theory of integration of social systems / Talcott Parsons -- Durkheim and functionalism / Albert Pierce -- Durkheim's politics and political theory / Melvin Richter -- Durkheim's conservatism and its implications for his sociological theory / Lewis A. Coser -- The influence of Durkheim and his school on the study of religion / Paul Honigsheim -- Some aspects of the legacy of Durkheim / Albert Salomon -- Durkheim in American sociology / Roscoe C. Hinkle, Jr. -- Durkheim's influence on Japanese sociology / Kazuta Kurauchi -- Reminescences of the Durkheim school / Paul Honigsheim -- Durkheim's letter to Radcliffe-Brown (with a facsimile of the original) / J.G. Peristiany -- The dualism of human nature and its social conditions -- Prefaces to L'année sociologique, volumes I and II -- Sociology and its scientific field -- Sociology -- Pragmatism and sociology (first, second, third, fourth, fifth, thirteenth, and fourteenth lectures) -- An introductory Durkheim bibliography / Kurt H. Wolff.