Prophets and Patrons : : The French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences / / Terry Nichols Clark.

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• VerfasserIn: Clark, Terry Nichols,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (282 p.)

Prophets and Patrons is the first detailed account of the emergence of sociology and related social sciences in France. It emphasizes three social and intellectual groupings in the period from 1880 to 1914: the social statisticians who grew out of governmental ministries, the Durkheimians who were consistently housed in the university, and the "international sociologists" around René Worms, in neither ministries nor the university. Unlike most histories of ideas, Prophets and Patrons portrays the institutional developments that encouraged, discouraged, and rechanneled different styles of research. To understand these developments, a sociological analysis of the French university system is presented. At its center are the patrons (generally Sorbonne professors) who served as informal linkages for the entire system. Around them developed clusters of researchers and teachers throughout France. The workings of this system of relations, analyzed here for the first time, are crucial to understanding the French university. The university is also immersed in the political and ideological currents of the Latin Quarter. Thus Clark's investigation of conflicting elements of French culture and social structure helps illuminate his analysis of the university. This study will be invaluable to social scientists, intellectual historians, and students of French culture and comparative education.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Prologue: Perspectives on the Emergence of the Social Sciences -- Part I: Organization and Innovation in the French System of Higher Education -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The French System of Higher Education: Basic Institutional Structures -- Chapter 2. Patrons and Clusters: The Informal Structure of the French University System -- Part II: The Institutionalization of the Social Sciences -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. Prophetic Precursors: Positivists, Le Playists, and Anthropologists -- Chapter 4. The Social Statisticians -- Chapter 5. The International Sociologists -- Chapter 6. The Durkheimians and the University -- Part III: Continuities and Discontinuities -- Introduction -- Chapter 7. French Social Science Since 1914 -- Chapter 8. Conclusion -- Appendixes: Social Recruitment and Traditions of Research -- Index