Chapter 3. Prophetic Precursors: Positivists, Le Playists, and Anthropologists

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Prologue: Perspectives on the Emergence of the Social Sciences 1
5. Part I: Organization and Innovation in the French System of Higher Education
6. Introduction 9
7. Chapter 1. The French System of Higher Education: Basic Institutional Structures 13
8. Chapter 2. Patrons and Clusters: The Informal Structure of the French University System 66
9. Part II: The Institutionalization of the Social Sciences
10. Introduction 95
11. Chapter 3. Prophetic Precursors: Positivists, Le Playists, and Anthropologists 99
12. Chapter 4. The Social Statisticians 122
13. Chapter 5. The International Sociologists 147
14. Chapter 6. The Durkheimians and the University 162
15. Part III: Continuities and Discontinuities
16. Introduction 199
17. Chapter 7. French Social Science Since 1914 202
18. Chapter 8. Conclusion 242
19. Appendixes: Social Recruitment and Traditions of Research 249
20. Index 263