DOI: 10.1057/9781137450548.0001 Sociology in France after 1945
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Sociology in France after 1945 Philippe Masson Assistant Professor, University of Nantes, France and Cherry Schrecker Assistant Professor, University of Lorraine, France DOI: 10.1057/9781137450548.0001
Sociology in France after 1945 Copyright Philippe Masson and Cherry Schrecker, 2016. S o f t c o v e r r e p r i n t o f t h e h a r d c o v e r 1 s t e d i t i o n 2 0 1 6 9 7 8-1 - 1 3 7-4 5 0 5 3-1 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500 New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. ISBN: 978 1-137-45053-1 E-PDF ISBN: 978 1 137 45054 8 doi: 10.1057/9781137450548 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available from the Library of Congress A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library
Contents Notes on the Authors vi Introduction 1 1 French Sociology before 1945: Philosophy, Institutions and Politics 7 2 American Influence and the Development of Disciplines (1945 1963) 25 3 The Development and Institutionalization of Sociology as an Academic Discipline (1963 1980) 42 4 Questioning the Old Models and Bringing in the New (1980 to the Present) 57 Conclusion: From Present to Future? 74 Bibliography 79 Index 87 DOI: 10.1057/9781137450548.0001 v
Notes on the Authors Philippe Masson is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Nantes, France and a member of the research laboratory the Centre d études nantais de sociologie (CENS). He teaches sociology at all levels (from first year to Master s). His principal teaching areas are the history and sociology of the social sciences. He also teaches sociology of the family, social stratification and mobility, sociology of education and sociology of health and medicine. He has carried out research and published in diverse areas, such as education, urban sociology, methodology of the social sciences and the history of sociology. Among his recent publications on history of sociology are Faire de la sociologie. Les grandes enquêtes françaises depuis 1945, Paris, Editions La Découverte (2008) and French Sociology and the State, Current Sociology, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 719 729. Cherry Schrecker is Assistant Professor at Lorraine University, Nancy, France and a member of the Laboratoire Lorrain des Sciences Sociales (2L2S). Her teaching areas include the sociology of deviance, history of ideas, epistemology, international comparisons, methodology and the history of sociology (courses taught at all levels), and she has recently qualified to direct doctoral theses. Her principal research areas are the history of sociology and of sociological concepts (particularly that of community), studies of hospitalisation in diverse contexts, ethics and medicine, the end of life. She has also carried out research on universities, including a study conducted at The New School in New York. She is a member of the International vi DOI: 10.1057/9781137450548.0002
Notes on the Authors vii Sociological Association (ISA), where she is vice president of the RC 08 History of Sociology, and of the Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française (AISLF). Among her publications in English are Transatlantic Voyages and Sociology: The Migration and Development of Ideas (2010), and Textbooks and Sociology: A Franco- British Comparison, Current Sociology, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 201 219. DOI: 10.1057/9781137450548.0002