| Titre | La vocation originelle d'Emile Durkheim | |
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| Auteur | Bernard Lacroix | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1976, 17-2 À propos de Durkheim | |
| Page | 213-245 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Bernard Lacroix: Emile Durkheim's Original Calling.
By including Emile Durkheim among its ancestors, the sociological tradition fails to recognize the unique and specific nature of the initial object which this French « sociologist » investigated. Through a detailed examination of his first writings, this article proposes to show that politics constitute the heart of this author's inquiry, as evidenced by two strategic moments, namely just before and after his trip to Germany. In this sense, all this young philosophy professor's readings look like an attempt to figure out the French political situation of his day. His thoughts initially center around the triangle : State-cohesion-conflict. Later on, under the influence of German thinking, Durkheim sees the State's role reduced in this problematic; the theme of conflict is given up, and society is conceived thereafter as an interdependent system. Little by little, through these tentatives and inflections, the object of Durkheimian « sociology » becomes manifest: in its origins at least, it was only another (positive) way of practising the « political and moral » disciplines of its time. 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_5653 |
