The social after Gabriel Tarde : debates and assessments / edited by Matei Candea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Candea, Matei.

Series:

Culture, economy and the social

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tarde, Gabriel de, 1843-1904.

Tarde, Gabriel de.

Sociology--France--History.

Sociology.

France.

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 287 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Contents:

1 Revisiting Tarde's house / Matei Candea Candea, Matei 1

Part I 'The distance that lay between': the Tarde-Durkheim debate reconsidered 25

2 The debate / Gabriel Tarde Tarde, Gabriel, Emile Durkheim Durkheim, Emile 27

3 Imitation: returning to the Tarde-Durkheim debate / Bruno Karsenti Karsenti, Bruno 44

4 The value of a beautiful memory: imitation as borrowing in serious play at making mortuary sculptures in New Ireland / Karen Sykes Sykes, Karen 62

5 Tarde and Durkheim and the non-sociological ground of sociology / David Toews Toews, David 80

6 If there is no such thing as society, is ritual still special? On using The Elementary Forms after Tarde / Joel Robbins Robbins, Joel 93

7 One or three: issues of comparison / Timothy Jenkins Jenkins, Timothy 102

8 The height, length and width of social theory / Alberto Corsin Jimenez Jimenez, Alberto Corsin 110

9 Faith, reason and the ethic of craftsmanship: creating contingently stable worlds / Penny Harvey Harvey, Penny, Soumhya Venkatesan Venkatesan, Soumhya 129

Part II Quantifying, tracing, relating: fragments of tardean method 143

10 Trade's idea of quantification / Bruno Latour Latour, Bruno 145

11 Gabriel Trade and statistical movement / Emmanuel Didier Didier, Emmanuel 163

12 Tarde's method: between statistics and experimentation / Andrew Barry Barry, Andrew 177

13 Intervening with the social? Ethnographic practice and Trade's image of relations between subjects / James Leach Leach, James 191

14 Tarde on drugs, or measures against Suicide / Eduardo Viana Vargas Vargas, Eduardo Viana 208

15 On Tardean relations: temporality and ethnography / Georgina Born Born, Georgina 230

16 Pass it on: towards a political economy of propensity / Nigel Thrift Thrift, Nigel 248.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415543398

9780415543392

0203876318

9780203876312

OCLC:

311791107