| Titre | Gabriel Tarde et la psychologie sociale | |
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| Auteur | Jean Milet | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1972, 13-4 | |
| Page | 472-484 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Jean Millet : Gabriel Tarde and social psychology.
G. Tarde (1843-1904) is one of the founders of French sociology. His observations are based upon surveys on criminals. His main belief rests upon social life as an inter-psychology. In his famous work, Les Lois de l'Imitation (The Laws of Imitation) (1890), he shows that social life is made of the interaction of psychological factors: the Desires of some men and the Inventions imagined for their satisfaction, form the subject of imitations. These imitations spread as waves through social groups, according to specific laws of expansion. These phenomena of imitation (as well as those of opposition and of adaptation which follow them) make up the social network and thus, social life itself. Social life is not led by blind collective factors (as Durkheim believed), but by psychological factors. From these principles, G. Tarde defines the elements of a general sociology, an economic sociology and a philosophy of history. His work deserves to be rediscovered, because it allows to prepare the way for a fertile link between sociology and contemporary psychoanalysis. It legitimates beforehand the current attempts to cast the means of psychoanalysis on social psychology and thus on sociology. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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