L’interazionismo simbolico e la ricezione di Durkheim: una ricerca sulle riviste scientifiche

The article analyzes how the work of the French sociologist Émile Durkheim has been received by a sociological approach, seemingly antithetical to his social theory: symbolic interactionism. The analysis was conducted through quantitative and qualitative research on the references to Durkheim appeared from 1977 to 2016 on the scientific journals Studies in Symbolic Interaction and Symbolic Interaction. The results highlight an ontological convergence and an epistemological divergence, both based mainly on the assumptions of Durkheim’s Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912).