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History and Sociology in France - From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School (Hardcover)
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History and Sociology in France - From Scientific History to the Durkheimian School (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Approaches to History
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In the late 19th century and early part of the 20th, with the
coming of age of sociology in France, the idea that there could be
a "science" of history was the subject of much and varied debate.
The methodological problems surrounding historical knowledge that
were debated throughout this period concerned not only scientific
history, but the social sciences as well, and sociology more
specifically. Although sociology was from its origins in
competition with the discipline of history, from the outset, it too
was interested in history as a form of objective knowledge. Many of
sociology's founders believed that by retracing historical
processes, they could make a clean break with abstraction and
metaphysics. For their part, historians generally remained hostile
to any kind of systematization. And yet, at the end of the 19th
century, the science of history would draw some valuable lessons
from the emerging methodology of sociology. It was in large part
under the impetus of the issues and problems raised by the
philosopher Henri Berr and by the Durkheimian School, with the
economist Francois Simiand as its lead protagonist, that the
community of historians, increasingly aware of the limits of
narrative history, turned so enthusiastically to social and
economic history - just as Durkheim and his disciples consulted
history in order to avoid the twin pitfalls of the philosophy of
history and of introspective psychology. History and Sociology in
France focuses on this dialogue of the two neighboring sciences.
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