J Heilbron
Biographic Data
| ID | 17324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Heilbron |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Heilbron |
| SIGNATURE | HEILBRON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2747-4487 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 523 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Analyses et comptes rendus
Colonial Sociology and the Historical Sociology of the Social Sciences
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'A sociologia…quando ela é bem feita'. Entrevista, 1984-1985
Entrevista que Norbert Elias concedeu a Johan Heilbron, publicada em Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 2014/5 (n. 205). Tradução de Igor Grill e revisão de José Benevides Queiroz
Anti (sciences) sociales, tu perds ton sang-froid
De Swaan, Abram (1942)
Abram de Swaan is a Dutch social scientist with a background in mathematical political science and game theory, a subsequent training in psychoanalysis, and a lifelong career in historical and comparative sociology. His work is broad and multifaceted, and his classic books on the welfare state, the global language system, and genocidal regimes, written in English, are outstanding sociological studies. Many shorter essays and playful columns, writ…
Obtaining World Fame from the Periphery
Although book translations are overwhelmingly made from English and asmall number of other central languages, translations occasionally also flow in the opposite direction, i.e. from peripheral countries and languages to more central ones. This chapter explores the translation and international recognition of Dutch writers. It identifies a general pattern structured by three successive circuits of selection, diffusion, valorization and recognitio…
The Institutionalization of SSH Disciplines in the Netherlands: 1945–2015
Mixed methods research: What It Is and What It Could Be
Combining methods in social scientific research has recently gained momentum through a research strand called Mixed Methods Research (MMR). This approach, which explicitly aims to offer a framework for combining methods, has rapidly spread through the social and behavioural sciences, and this article offers an analysis of the approach from a field theoretical perspective. After a brief outline of the MMR program, we ask how its recent rise can be…
Introduction: The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations
Politics of Translation: How States Shape Cultural Transfers
The Globalization of European Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities (1980–2014): A Bibliometric Study
The European Research Area in the Social and Human Sciences: Between National Closure and American Hegemony
Ranking, coordination, and global governance: The case of the Access to Medicine Index
As a case study in the proliferation of global rankings, we examine the initiation, construction of, and response to the Access to Medicine Index, which ranks pharmaceutical companies according to their respective contribution to access to medicine for developing countries. Since it has served as the model for constructing global rankings in the fields of nutrition, seeds, mining, possibly in the future, oil, seafood, mobile internet, and agricul…
Pour une sociologie historique et réflexive des sciences humaines et sociales
Un contexte bipolaire Il n’est pas inutile de rappeler pour commencer le contexte dans lequel se situent les travaux sur les sciences humaines et sociales (SHS). De façon quelque peu schématique, on évoquera en premier lieu l’existence d’un ensemble de recherches qui se disent et se veulent avant tout « historiques ». On peut identifier ses revues spécialisées, comme History of the Human Sciences (1988) ou la Revue d’histoire des sciences humaine…
Transgresser les frontières en sciences humaines et sociales en France
Fondé sur une analyse secondaire de l’enquête bibliométrique du CNRS sur les revues en SHS, cet article analyse le degré d’ouverture et de fermeture de sept disciplines en sciences humaines et sociales (sociologie, anthropologie, science politique, économie/gestion, histoire, philosophie, droit). Deux dimensions sont distinguées : l’ouverture vis-à-vis d’autres disciplines (indiquée par la proportion de références à des revues extra-disciplinaire…
La résilience des disciplines
Interest: History of the Concept
Sociology, History of
« La sociologie… quand elle est bien faite ». Entretien, 1984-1985
Partant de l’hypothese que les separations vecues au cours de la vie reactivent la separation premiere, celle de la naissance et des debuts de la vie, l’auteur s’interroge sur les modeles de construction ou de reconstruction de « l’etre separe ». De la creation de l’objet transitionnel par le bebe a tout acte de passage et de renouvellement, en reponse au drame des separations, c’est le meme processus createur qui est a l’œuvre pour que les separ…
French Sociology
French Sociology offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the oldest and still one of the most vibrant national traditions in sociology. Johan Heilbron covers the development of sociology in France from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century through the discipline's expansion in the late twentieth century, tracing the careers of figures from Auguste Comte to Pierre Bourdieu. Presenting fresh interpretations of how renowned thinkers such as…
Young Durkheimians and the temptation of fascism: The case of Marcel Déat
In this article we assess the general claim that Durkheimian sociology has reactionary, fascist, or totalitarian affinities, and the specific claim that Marcel Déat’s Durkheimian background was a significant factor in his becoming a Nazi sympathizer. We do so by comparing the different trajectories of the interwar generation of young Durkheimians and find that only one, i.e. Déat, can be said to have become fascist. Indeed, what characterizes thi…
Auguste Comte and Modern Epistemology
Auguste Comte's historical and differential theory of science inaugurated an original tradition in epistemology. His theory of the sciences was a detailed elaboration of a historical and differential theory of science. This tradition may be regarded as specifically French. It started to develop at the end of the nineteenth century, when academic philosophers such as Boutroux began to be interested in Comte's work. He introduced both terms: positi…
Fiction from the Periphery: How Dutch Writers Enter the Field of English-Language Literature
Literary translations are worldwide predominantly made from English, which is far ahead of any other language. While various studies have proposed interpretations of this supremacy few have examined translation flows in the opposite direction, studying how literary authors from the periphery can transcend the boundaries of their language and gain access to the center of the global literary world by being translated into English. From the theoreti…
Rethinking the Political: The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, and the Collège de Sociologie
The social sciences as an emerging global field
Exploring the 'globalization' of the social sciences, this article first presents an historical interpretation of how transnational exchange in the social sciences has evolved. Earlier forms of international circulation are distinct from the more global arrangements that have emerged since the late twentieth century. Considering this globalizing field in more detail, it is argued that its predominant characteristic is a core-periphery structure, …
Toward a transnational history of the social sciences
Historical accounts of the social sciences have too often accepted local or national institu-tions as a self-evident framework of analysis, instead of considering them as being embed-ded in transnational relations of various kinds. Evolving patterns of transnational mobility and exchange cut through the neat distinction between the local, the national, and the inter-national, and thus represent an essential component in the dynamics of the social…
The social sciences as an emerging global field
Exploring the 'globalization' of the social sciences, this article first presents an historical interpretation of how transnational exchange in the social sciences has evolved. Earlier forms of international circulation are distinct from the more global arrangements that have emerged since the late twentieth century. Considering this globalizing field in more detail, it is argued that its predominant characteristic is a core-periphery structure, …
Les métamorphoses du durkheimisme, 1920-1940
Heilbron Johan. Les métamorphoses du durkheimisme, 1920-1940. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1985, 26-2. La sociologie française dans l'entre-deux-guerres. Etudes et documents réunis par Philippe Besnard, sous la direction de Philippe Besnard . pp. 203-237
Qu'est-ce qu'une tradition nationale en sciences sociales
La traduction littéraire, un objet sociologique
Heilbron Johan, Sapiro Gisèle. La traduction littéraire, un objet sociologique. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 144, septembre 2002. Traductions: les échanges littéraires internationaux. pp. 3-5
Towards a Sociology of Translation: Book Translations as a Cultural World-System
This article argues that the translation of books may be fruitfully understood as constituting a cultural world-system. The working of this system, based on a core-periphery structure, accounts for the uneven flows of translations between language groups as well as for the varying role of translations within language groups. The final part outlines how this general sociological model may be further developed
Where did the new economic sociology come from
De-Sportization of Fighting Contests: The Origins and Dynamics of No Holds Barred Events and the Theory of Sportization
On the basis of an empirical analysis of the emergence, spread and transformation of No Holds Barred fighting contests during the 1990s, we argue that Norbert Elias's model of sportization represents a fruitful but not sufficiently differentiated framework for understanding the recent development of combat sports and fighting contests. Although the martial arts in the 20th century provide striking examples of processes of sportization and para-sp…
Mixed methods research: What It Is and What It Could Be
Combining methods in social scientific research has recently gained momentum through a research strand called Mixed Methods Research (MMR). This approach, which explicitly aims to offer a framework for combining methods, has rapidly spread through the social and behavioural sciences, and this article offers an analysis of the approach from a field theoretical perspective. After a brief outline of the MMR program, we ask how its recent rise can be…
Pionniers par défaut: Les débuts de la recherche au Centre d'études sociologiques (1946-1960)
Heilbron Johan. Pionniers par défaut ? Les débuts de la recherche au Centre d'études sociologiques (1946-1960). In: Revue française de sociologie, 1991, 32-3. Reconstructions de la sociologie française, 1945-1960. pp. 365-379
A Cultural Globalization of Popular Music? American, Dutch, French, and German Popular Music Charts (1965 to 2006)
In this article, the authors address the question of whether and how the appreciation of popular music consumers has globalized in the four decades since the mid-1960s. They use information from American, Dutch, French, and German popular music charts from 1965 through 2006. They find no corroboration for an overall trend toward an internationalization of hits. However, important shifts are noticeable underneath the surface. For the period up unt…
Vers une histoire transnationale des sciences sociales
Les comptes rendus historiques du développement des sciences sociales ont trop souvent considéré les institutions locales ou nationales comme le cadre d'analyse pertinent, au lieu de prendre en compte leur insertion dans divers types de relations transnationales. L'évolution des structures de mobilité et d'échanges transnationaux met à mal les distinctions nettes entre le local, le national et l'international, et représente une composante essenti…
Dans la cage: Genèse et dynamique des « combats ultimes
Bien que le développement des arts mar- tiaux au XX e siècle constitue un exemple frappant de « sportivisation » au sens de Norbert Elias, l'essor des « combats en cage » dans les années 1990 peut être vu comme une tendance opposée, une forme de dé-sportivisation. Comme le montre l'analyse de ces combats, la « sportivisation » comme la « dé-sportivisation » dépendent avant tout des intérêts des organisateurs, et plus particulièrement de la manièr…
Translation as a cultural world system
The translation of books and the international flows which result from it, can be viewed a cultural world system. The working of this system, based on a core‐periphery structure, accounts for the uneven flows of translations between language groups as well as for the varying role of translations within language groups. The article outlines some of the consequences of this sociological model and suggests directions for further research
Obtaining World Fame from the Periphery
Although book translations are overwhelmingly made from English and asmall number of other central languages, translations occasionally also flow in the opposite direction, i.e. from peripheral countries and languages to more central ones. This chapter explores the translation and international recognition of Dutch writers. It identifies a general pattern structured by three successive circuits of selection, diffusion, valorization and recognitio…
Fiction from the Periphery: How Dutch Writers Enter the Field of English-Language Literature
Literary translations are worldwide predominantly made from English, which is far ahead of any other language. While various studies have proposed interpretations of this supremacy few have examined translation flows in the opposite direction, studying how literary authors from the periphery can transcend the boundaries of their language and gain access to the center of the global literary world by being translated into English. From the theoreti…
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity. Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850
The rise of the social sciences and the formation of modernity : conceptual change in context, 1750-1850
Viviana Zelizer, « l'argent social »: Entretien avec Florence Weber
Cet article présente une discussion du livre de Viviana Zelizer, La signification sociale de l’argent, en comparant de manière plus générale sociologie de l’économie en France et en Amérique du Nord, tout en remarquant une certaine conver-gence entre ces deux courants longtemps séparés
La réinvention américaine de la sociologie économique
Comme tout champ de recherche nouveau, la new economic sociology américaine a été construite par le regroupement sous un même label académique de chercheurs d'horizons assez différents. Dans la seconde moitié des années 1980, des entrepreneurs académiques ont repris l'expression de « sociologie économique » aux « pères fondateurs » européens. Ils affirmaient ainsi leur entreprise de renouvellement de la discipline tout en se démarquant à la fois …
Auguste Comte and Modern Epistemology
Auguste Comte's historical and differential theory of science inaugurated an original tradition in epistemology. His theory of the sciences was a detailed elaboration of a historical and differential theory of science. This tradition may be regarded as specifically French. It started to develop at the end of the nineteenth century, when academic philosophers such as Boutroux began to be interested in Comte's work. He introduced both terms: positi…
The origins and early diffusion of 'shareholder value' in the United States
Economic Sociology in France
With the work of Durkheimian scholars like François Simiand, Maurice Halbwachs and Marcel Mauss, economic sociology became an original and particularly creative research tradition in France. When the Durkheimian approach to the economy was gradually replaced by the sociology of work, it survived outside of sociology proper, especially among economic historians, heterodox economists and anthropologists. At the end of the twentieth century economic…
Reflexivity and its Consequences
The work of Pierre Bourdieu owes much of its distinctive qualities to its reflexive character, to the incisive and recurrent analysis of what it means to practise social science, to be an academic, or to speak out as an intellectual. The sociology of the intellectual world for Bourdieu is not so much a particular research specialty as an indispensable precondition for social scientific research. Reflexivity in this sense is a working method, reco…
Particularités et particularismes de la sociologie aux Pays-Bas
Heilbron Johan. Particularités et particularismes de la sociologie aux Pays-Bas. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 74, septembre 1988. Recherches sur la recherche. pp. 76-81
Young Durkheimians and the temptation of fascism: The case of Marcel Déat
In this article we assess the general claim that Durkheimian sociology has reactionary, fascist, or totalitarian affinities, and the specific claim that Marcel Déat’s Durkheimian background was a significant factor in his becoming a Nazi sympathizer. We do so by comparing the different trajectories of the interwar generation of young Durkheimians and find that only one, i.e. Déat, can be said to have become fascist. Indeed, what characterizes thi…
Le développement des sciences sociales en France au tournant des années soixante
Les métamorphoses du durkheimisme, 1920-1940
Heilbron Johan. Les métamorphoses du durkheimisme, 1920-1940. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1985, 26-2. La sociologie française dans l'entre-deux-guerres. Etudes et documents réunis par Philippe Besnard, sous la direction de Philippe Besnard . pp. 203-237
A propos de la découverte du virus du Sida: Mécanismes de concurrence et de défense dans un conflit scientifique
Zur Entdeckung des Aids-Virus. In diesem Artikel wird zu erklären versucht, wie es dazu kam, daß eine zu diesem Zeitpunkt noch unbekannte französische Forschergruppe den Aids- Virus entdeckte und damit einem auf diesem Gebiet spezialisierten amerikanischen Team zuvorkam. Ein Jahr nach Veröffentlichung der französischen Entdeckung verkiindet die amerikanische Gruppe, die dazu beigetragen hatte, daß die französische Entdeckung unbekannt geblieben w…
Particularités et particularismes de la sociologie aux Pays-Bas
Heilbron Johan. Particularités et particularismes de la sociologie aux Pays-Bas. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 74, septembre 1988. Recherches sur la recherche. pp. 76-81
The Measure of Enlightenment
Theory of knowledge and theory of science in the work of auguste comte: Note on Comte's Originality
Plutôt que de réduire l’œuvre de Comte à son «positivisme», il est utile d’établir une distinction entre sa théorie de la connaissance et sa théorie des sciences. Si la théorie de la connaissance comtienne ne paraît pas particulièrement originale, sa théorie des sciences est ici considérée comme une innovation intellectuelle majeure: c’est une des toutes premières théories historiques et différentielles. Elle a été capitale pour la formation de l…
Pionniers par défaut: Les débuts de la recherche au Centre d'études sociologiques (1946-1960)
Heilbron Johan. Pionniers par défaut ? Les débuts de la recherche au Centre d'études sociologiques (1946-1960). In: Revue française de sociologie, 1991, 32-3. Reconstructions de la sociologie française, 1945-1960. pp. 365-379
Auguste Comte and historical epistemology: A reply to Dick Pels
The Rise of Social Theory
French Moralists and the Anthropology of the Modern Era: On the Genesis of the Notions of ‘Interest’ and ‘Commercial Society’
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity
The Rise of Social Theory
Foreword. Introduction. Part I: The Rise of Social Theory:. 1. Intellectuals Between Academy and Salon. 2. Rivalry for Reason. 3. French Moralists and the Social Order. 4. The Construction of Social Theory. 5. Theoretical Models Compared: France and Scotland. Part II: From Social Theory to Social Science:. 6. Reform, Revolution and the Napoleonic Era. 7. Intellectual Transformations Around 1800. 8. Natural Science and Revolution. 9. The Literary …
The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity. Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850
The rise of the social sciences and the formation of modernity : conceptual change in context, 1750-1850
Towards a Sociology of Translation: Book Translation as a Cultural World-System
Reflexivity and its Consequences
The work of Pierre Bourdieu owes much of its distinctive qualities to its reflexive character, to the incisive and recurrent analysis of what it means to practise social science, to be an academic, or to speak out as an intellectual. The sociology of the intellectual world for Bourdieu is not so much a particular research specialty as an indispensable precondition for social scientific research. Reflexivity in this sense is a working method, reco…
Towards a Sociology of Translation: Book Translations as a Cultural World-System
This article argues that the translation of books may be fruitfully understood as constituting a cultural world-system. The working of this system, based on a core-periphery structure, accounts for the uneven flows of translations between language groups as well as for the varying role of translations within language groups. The final part outlines how this general sociological model may be further developed
Translation as a cultural world system
The translation of books and the international flows which result from it, can be viewed a cultural world system. The working of this system, based on a core‐periphery structure, accounts for the uneven flows of translations between language groups as well as for the varying role of translations within language groups. The article outlines some of the consequences of this sociological model and suggests directions for further research
Empire of Meaning. The Humanization of the Social Sciences
Economic Sociology in France
With the work of Durkheimian scholars like François Simiand, Maurice Halbwachs and Marcel Mauss, economic sociology became an original and particularly creative research tradition in France. When the Durkheimian approach to the economy was gradually replaced by the sociology of work, it survived outside of sociology proper, especially among economic historians, heterodox economists and anthropologists. At the end of the twentieth century economic…
Mark Granovetter, Le marché autrement. Les réseaux dans l’économie: Desclée de Brouwer, coll. « Sociologie économique », Paris, 2000, 239 p. [Traduction française d’Isabelle This-Saint Jean. Préface d…
Le recueil d’articles de Mark Granovetter que vient de publier Desclée de Brouwer rend accessible aux lecteurs francophones un ensemble de textes, à la fois cohérent et représentatif, d’une des figures majeures de la sociologie aux États-Unis. Depuis la publication de Getting a Job (1974), livre issu de sa thèse de doctorat, M. Granovetter a publié une série d’articles qui ont marqué deux courants dominants de la sociologie américaine des années …
La bibliométrie, genèse et usages
Heilbron Johan. La bibliométrie, genèse et usages. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 141-142, mars 2002. Science. pp. 78-79
La traduction littéraire, un objet sociologique
Heilbron Johan, Sapiro Gisèle. La traduction littéraire, un objet sociologique. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 144, septembre 2002. Traductions: les échanges littéraires internationaux. pp. 3-5
Les structures sociales de la finance
Bourdieu Jérôme, Heilbron Johan, Reynaud Bénédicte. Les structures sociales de la finance. In: Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales. Vol. 146-147, mars 2003. Espaces de la finance. pp. 3-7
The rise of social science disciplines in France
The first of this series was the special issue about Durkheim
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