{"product_id":"professional-ethics-and-civic-morals-by-emile-durkheim","title":"'Professional Ethics and Civic Morals' by Émile Durkheim","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"245\" data-end=\"643\"\u003eA dense but deeply profound tome, É\u003cspan\u003emile Durkheim is one of the founding fathers of sociology and this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis one of his most neglected yet insightful works.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"356\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"356\"\u003eProfessional Ethics and Civic Morals\u003c\/em\u003e captures Durkheim at a moment when modern industrial society was rapidly reorganising work, authority, and social belonging. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"645\" data-end=\"1051\"\u003eDurkheim’s argument is that modern societies cannot rely solely on abstract civic virtue or market exchange; they require intermediary institutions capable of producing shared norms and obligations. Professional groups, in his view, become the moral infrastructure of modern life. What emerges is less a handbook on ethics than a structural analysis of how moral order is produced within complex societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1053\" data-end=\"1228\"\u003eToday the book reads as an early attempt to grapple with the ethical architecture of modern bureaucracy and professional power—questions that remain surprisingly contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44179207553107,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/ScholarsCreatingDigitalMapsofSpinoza_sEthics-2026-03-10T182704.770.png?v=1773127639","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/professional-ethics-and-civic-morals-by-emile-durkheim","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}