Prophets and Patrons : The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences / Terry Nichols Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Terry Nichols, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences--Study and teaching--France--History.

Social sciences.

Social sciences--Research--France--History.

Universities and colleges--France--History.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2013

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Prophets and Patrons is the first detailed account of the emergence of sociology and related social sciences in France. It emphasizes three social and intellectual groupings in the period from 1880 to 1914: the social statisticians who grew out of governmental ministries, the Durkheimians who were consistently housed in the university, and the "international sociologists" around René Worms, in neither ministries nor the university. Unlike most histories of ideas, Prophets and Patrons portrays the institutional developments that encouraged, discouraged, and rechanneled different styles of research. To understand these developments, a sociological analysis of the French university system is presented. At its center are the patrons (generally Sorbonne professors) who served as informal linkages for the entire system. Around them developed clusters of researchers and teachers throughout France. The workings of this system of relations, analyzed here for the first time, are crucial to understanding the French university. The university is also immersed in the political and ideological currents of the Latin Quarter. Thus Clark's investigation of conflicting elements of French culture and social structure helps illuminate his analysis of the university. This study will be invaluable to social scientists, intellectual historians, and students of French culture and comparative education.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Prologue: Perspectives on the Emergence of the Social Sciences

Part I: Organization and Innovation in the French System of Higher Education

Introduction

Chapter 1. The French System of Higher Education: Basic Institutional Structures

Chapter 2. Patrons and Clusters: The Informal Structure of the French University System

Part II: The Institutionalization of the Social Sciences

Chapter 3. Prophetic Precursors: Positivists, Le Playists, and Anthropologists

Chapter 4. The Social Statisticians

Chapter 5. The International Sociologists

Chapter 6. The Durkheimians and the University

Part III: Continuities and Discontinuities

Chapter 7. French Social Science Since 1914

Chapter 8. Conclusion

Appendixes: Social Recruitment and Traditions of Research

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-28342-2

OCLC:

1013937849