| Titre | Durkheim, les sciences sociales et l'Université : bilan d'un semi-échec | |
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| Auteur | Victor Karady | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1976, 17-2 À propos de Durkheim | |
| Page | 267-311 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Victor Karady : Durkheim, the Social Sciences and the University : Inventory of a Failure.
This article tries to clarify, by means of socio-historical survey data, the circumstances and the limits of institutionalisation of sociology in the French university system. The story of how the first courses in the discipline were created shows the relationship between the academic reception of sociology and the reform movement of higher studies which allowed a number of social sciences to enter the faculties of letters (geography, social history, psychology, pedagogy) and of law (political economy, political science, statistics). These innovations, in terms of subjects taught, correspond in various manners to the social functions of the faculties. They rest upon the scientific, institutional and social legitimacy these sciences possess to different degrees allowing to oppose sociology to the other social sciences introduced into the faculties of letters on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to those belonging to the law schools. Though Durkheim's sociological school has acquired a dominant position in the field of social studies proper, it continues to be dominated in the academic system for failing to achieve professionalisation of sociological research (on the external market place) and to guarantee its complete autonomy in the faculties. Durkheim's failure is expressed by the decline or stagnation of sociological teaching and research till the 1950s as shown by empirical indicators. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1976_num_17_2_5656 |
