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Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. The first, written with Fauconnet, outlines the methodological orientations of the school. The second examines the internal organization of sociology as a division of intellectual labor. The essays are of interest to anthropologists as well as sociologists for Mauss, like Durkheim, did not distinguish in detail the two disciplines.



Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction
Mike Gane

Sociology
(with Paul Fauconnet)

Sociology: Its Divisions and Their Relative Weightings

Chapter 1. The Sequence or Order of the Parts of Sociology
Chapter 2. On the Proportions of the Parts of Sociology
Chapter 3. Concrete Divisions of Sociology
Chapter 4. The Place of Applied Sociology or Politics

Additional Bibliographical Note
Index

The Nature of Sociology

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      Publisher Berghahn Books
      Published 17 April 2020
      ISBN-13 9781789208153
      978-1789208153
      ISBN-10 1789208157
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      Politics, Philosophy & Society Sociology Religious issues and debates

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. The first, written with Fauconnet, outlines the methodological orientations of the school. The second examines the internal organization of sociology as a division of intellectual labor. The essays are of interest to anthropologists as well as sociologists for Mauss, like Durkheim, did not distinguish in detail the two disciplines.



      Table of Contents

      Preface and Acknowledgements

      Introduction
      Mike Gane

      Sociology
      (with Paul Fauconnet)

      Sociology: Its Divisions and Their Relative Weightings

      Chapter 1. The Sequence or Order of the Parts of Sociology
      Chapter 2. On the Proportions of the Parts of Sociology
      Chapter 3. Concrete Divisions of Sociology
      Chapter 4. The Place of Applied Sociology or Politics

      Additional Bibliographical Note
      Index

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