Abstract
The purpose of this paper is summarizing and advocating a way of positive social analysis that sociology should aim for, based on E. Durkheim's Moral Community Theory.
In other words, I propose the direction of a study that may benefit the analysis and improvement of people's actual social life by drawing Durkheim's “Moral World” concretely on a daily-life level.
First, I survey Durkheim's Moral Community Theory and refer to its points and traits. Second, I examine E. Goffman who is believed to have succeeded in materializing Durkheim's Moral Community theory, and refer to the distinguished services and traits of his sociology. On this occasion, I point out defects about Goffman's Moral Community Theory. In the end, after I refer to the issue of Durkheim's methodology, I propose an idea of locating Goffman's Face-to-Face Social analysis in Durkheim's methodology, with my original interpretation of Durkheim.
