{"product_id":"french-sociology-paperback-softback-9780801456633","title":"French Sociology (Paperback \/ softback) 9780801456633","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFrench Sociology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohan Heilbron (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780801456633\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 November 2015\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 12 tables, 5 charts, 2 line figures - 12 Tables, black and white\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo history of the discipline has ever articulated so finely the evolution of its institutions, an interpretation of the trajectories of its central actors, and the presentation of its main theoretical, methodological, and empirical results.\u003c\/p\u003e (Contemporary Sociology) \u003cp\u003eReading Heilbron's study affords an unusual degree of intellectual satisfaction. It is thoroughly researched, up-to-date with the latest scholarship, and, although Bourdieusian in method, appropriately detached and non-partisan in its intellectual judgments. It tells a coherent overall story, continuing the author's fine \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Social Theory\u003c\/i\u003e, of the consolidation and subsequent reconsolidations of Comte's projected discipline across two centuries and tells that story in a sequence of stages whose periodization is well-motivated by reference to the distinctive dynamics of each.\u003c\/p\u003e (Theory and Society) \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrench Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e is a striking illustration of the relevance of an historical sociological approach to the social sciences that succeeds in articulating intellectual history and sociology of science. One can only hope that it will inspire other works of the same type.\u003c\/p\u003e (Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines) \u003cp\u003eHeilbron paints a deep sharp picture that allows new insights into the complex genealogies and institutional contexts of French sociology. His recapitulation of about two centuries of () French social science impressively demonstrates the usefulness and necessity of a historiography that consciously starts off from national scientific traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e (Soziopolis) \u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eFrench Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e Johan Heilbron - European sociologist if ever there is one – provides further evidence of his ability to use in his work on the history of sociology, not only the whole range of research techniques, but also the most demanding conceptual tools of the discipline he has taken as his object of study.\u003c\/p\u003e (Revue d'histoire des sciences humaines) \u003cp\u003eJohan Heilbron's erudite history of French sociology is essential reading.\u003c\/p\u003e (Society) \u003cp\u003eHeilbron's book is a well-documented journey of more than 150 years of French sociology. Having been able to dissect the main developments in a limited number of pages is an accomplishment. The choice not to limit the analysis to authors and their theories, but to consider dominant institutions, media of publication, fluctuations in student numbers as well as the overall context, offers an original perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e (Revue européenne des sciences sociales) \u003cp\u003eAn empirically very rich and at the same time concise book.\u003c\/p\u003e (Sociologie Magazine) \u003cp\u003eFor every historian of sociology this is an important, compulsory reference work.\u003c\/p\u003e (H-Soz-Kult) \u003cp\u003eVivid, innovative, and insightful.... Reading Heilbron's study affords an unusual degree of intellectual satisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e (THEORY AND SOCIETY)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrench Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the oldest and still one of the most vibrant national traditions in sociology. \u003c\/b\u003eJohan 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 Émile Durkheim and his collaborators defined the contours and content of the discipline and contributed to intellectual renewals in a wide range of other human sciences, Heilbron's sophisticated book is both an innovative sociological study and a major reference work in the history of the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHeilbron recounts the halting process by which sociology evolved from a new and improbable science into a legitimate academic discipline. Having entered the academic field at the end of the nineteenth century, sociology developed along two separate tracks: one in the Faculty of Letters, engendering an enduring dependence on philosophy and the humanities, the other in research institutes outside of the university, in which sociology evolved within and across more specialized research areas. Distinguishing different dynamics and various cycles of change, Heilbron portrays the ways in which individuals and groups maneuvered within this changing structure, seizing opportunities as they arose. \u003ci\u003eFrench Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e vividly depicts the promises and pitfalls of a discipline that up to this day remains one of the most interdisciplinary endeavors among the human sciences in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 1. The Establishment of Organized Social Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Social Science\u003cbr\u003e Moral Science in Government Service\u003cbr\u003e The Invasion of the Positive Sciences\u003cbr\u003e Republicanism, Science, and the Research University\u003cbr\u003e Disciplinary Frontiers\u003cbr\u003e The Tripartite Division of French Social Science\u003cbr\u003e The Literary Opposition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 2. An Improbable Science\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eReconceptualizing Social Science\u003cbr\u003e Comte and the Second Scientific Revolution\u003cbr\u003e The British Evolution of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e The Return of Sociology in France\u003cbr\u003e Positivist Politics\u003cbr\u003e Social Reform and Social Research\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 3. Sociology and Other Disciplines in the Making\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Two-Front Struggle of the Professoriate\u003cbr\u003e University Pioneers\u003cbr\u003e An Emerging Subfield\u003cbr\u003e From Psychology to Sociology\u003cbr\u003e Organizing a Science of Synthesis\u003cbr\u003e The Durkheimian Program\u003cbr\u003e Antagonistic Competition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Année sociologique\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDefining a Specialty of Generalists\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 4. The Metamorphoses of Durkheimian Scholarship\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Contours of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e The End of a Collective Enterprise\u003cbr\u003e Conflicting Interpretations\u003cbr\u003e To Profess or to Inquire?\u003cbr\u003e Recruitment Patterns\u003cbr\u003e Social Images of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Centre de documentation sociale\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Durkheimian Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 5. Pioneers by Default?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBetween Political Commitment and Policy Expertise\u003cbr\u003e Sociology at the Sorbonne\u003cbr\u003e Fieldwork as Vocation?\u003cbr\u003e Research Groups\u003cbr\u003e No Man's Land\u003cbr\u003e Reconfiguring the Social Sciences\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 6. Cycles of Expansion and Field Transformations\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Structuralist Boom and After\u003cbr\u003e Research Policy and the Research Sector\u003cbr\u003e Teaching Sociology\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Sociology\u003cbr\u003e Rhetoric and Reality of Professionalization\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eCHAPTER 7. Intellectual Styles and the Dynamics of Research Groups\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Sociology of Work\u003cbr\u003e Social Action and Public Sociology\u003cbr\u003e Organizational Analysis and Policy Sociology\u003cbr\u003e The Methodological Imperative\u003cbr\u003e Reflexive Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eEpilogue: What Is French about Sociology in France?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52541844783384,"sku":"9780801456633","price":23.58,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/french-sociology-paperback-softback-9780801456633","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}