Durkheimian sociology and 20th-century politics

The case of Célestin Bouglé

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7519210
AutoresJoshua M Humphreys (New York University in the Department of History and the Institute of French Studies, autor de correspondencia)
Año1999
Volumen12
Número3
Páginas117-138
Fecha de publicación1999-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaHistory of the Human Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0952-6951 • E-ISSN: 1461-720X
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/09526959922120379
OpenAlexW2010319096
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas46

This article revises received wisdom about the Durkheimian school of sociology and its relationship to Marxism by analyzing the work of Célestin Bouglé, one of the most influential and least examined sociologists of the Durkheimian tradition. Like other better-known Durkheimians of his generation such as Marcel Mauss and Maurice Halbwachs, Bouglé engaged Durkheimian sociology with Marxian and other German traditions of social thought. In the process he also paid an important debt to the French socialists that Marx and so many French Marxists have denigrated as ‘utopian’, especially Saint-Simon, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Charles Fourier. In fact, the concerns of Bouglé’s political sociology and Durkheimian sociology more generally are indissociable from the politics of Third Republic France

Epistemology · German · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · Law · Medieval and Early Modern Justice · Philosophy · Philosophy, Sociology, Political Theory