The Sociological Domain
The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology

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Introduction
Part I. The Durkheimian group and its context:
1. The Annee sociologique team Phillipe Besnard
2. The Durkheimians in Academe. A reconsideration Victor Karady
3. The republican ideology and the social sciences: the Durkheimians and the history of social economy at the Sorbonne George Weisz
4. Durkheimian sociology under attack: the controversy over sociology in the Ecoles Normales Primaires Roger Geiger
Part II. The Durkheimians and the scope of sociology:
5. An intellectual self-portrait Marcel Mauss
6. At the frontier of folklore and sociology: Hubert, Hertz and Czarnowski, founders of a sociology of folk religion Francois A. Isambert
7. Obligation and right: the Durkheimians and the sociology of law W. Paul Vogt
8. The absence of political sociology in the Durkheimian classifications of the social sciences Pierre Favre
9. Education and social mobility: Paul Lapie's path-breaking work Mohamed Cherkaoui
10. Durkheimian sociology versus philosophical rationalism: the case of Celestin Bougle W. Paul Vogt
11. The epistemological polemic: Francois Simiand Phillipe Besnard
12. Sociology and related disciplines between the wars: Maurice Halbwachs and the imperialism of the Durkheimians John E. Craig
Index.

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