Maurice Halbwachs, 1877-1945

Maurice Halbwachs, an internationally known French sociologist, died in the concentration camp at Buchenwald. He maintained throughout the German occupation an acitve interest in political affairs. As a sociologist he had been especially influences by Durkheim, and, like him, interpreted social behavior in terms of collective representations. But he was more empirical and less dogmatic that his famous teacher. Following studies of wants and standar of living of workers, he discovered that different collective representations characterize each social class. His final work (1941), on the legendary topography of the Holy Land, interprets mythological geography in terms of the devotional needs of the universal Christian community, changing as they Change

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