Description:
French Sociology offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the oldest and still one of the most vibrant national traditions in sociology. Johan Heilbron covers the development of sociology in France from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century through the discipline's expansion in the late twentieth century.
Brief description: Johan Heilbron is Director of Research at the Centre Européen de sociologie et de science politique de la Sorbonne (CNRS-EHESS) Paris and is affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is the author of The Rise of Social Theory and coeditor of The Rise of the Social Sciences and the Formation of Modernity: Conceptual Change in Context, 1750-1850.
Review Quotes:
No history of the discipline has ever articulated so finely the evolution of its institutions, an interpretation of the trajectories of its central actors, and the presentation of its main theoretical, methodological, and empirical results.
-- "Contemporary Sociology"