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The French Sociologists - Online Term Paper

The French Sociologists

(holistic approach), during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were
much concerned with the ‘nature’ of society and of the human social institutions. Their interests
lay rather in what human society essentially is, than in the history of it’s development, either
generally or in particular cases. Thus Comte, like his predecessor and teacher Saint Simon, was
much concerned to stress that societies are systems, not just aggregates of individuals. Since the
societies were look at as systems, they must be made up of interrelated parts. And they believed
that these parts must be related to one another, and to the whole society of which they were parts,
in accordance ...

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expression in the writing of the
French sociologist Émile Durkhiem, who is one of the most figures in social anthropology. With
Durkhiem, sociology had become in France a seminal discipline that broadened and transformed
the study of law, of economics, of Chinese institutions, of linguistics, of ethnology, of art history,
and of history.
Durkhiem’s nephew, Marcel Mauss, was less systematic than he was and paid greater
attention to symbolism as an unconscious activity of the mind. Claude Léve-Strauss, combines
reasoning with intensity of feeling, also offered corrections to Durkhiem’s views.

Acknowledgment

1. Other Cultures. 1966. John Beattie.
2. Brittiania. Volume four, P. 295 ...

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