ABSTRACT
Institutional analyses of government, parliament, parties, elections, legislation and bureaucracy-the classical topics of political sociology in the narrow senseare absent from Durkheim’s writings. The subject was given no place in his classification of sociology, and no independent heading in the Année Sociologique.1 But the questions Durkheim asks about the interrelation between social structure, politics and culture provide the beginnings of a political analysis. He seeks to establish a social configuration capable of securing the social structure of dynamic industrial capitalism within social and political organizations. And he seeks to achieve this in such a way that the modern ideal of justice-‘moral individualism’—becomes a reality.
