François Simiand
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François Joseph Charles Simiand was a French sociologist and economist best known as a participant in the Année Sociologique. As a member of the French historical school of economics, Simiand predicat
François Simiand (1934, portrait)
Book signed and offered by F. Simiand to Maurice Halbwachs (Le Salaire. L'évolution sociale et la monnaie (1932)). Book held at the Human and Social Sciences Library Paris Descartes-CNRS.
Émile Durkheim
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David Émile Durkheim was a French sociologist. He formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, along wit
François Simiand
…served as its expert on statistics. At the same time, as someone removed from the politics of French academics, he was at an institutional remove from Émile Durkheim's ambitions for transforming the French university. Simiand moved further into the administrative apparatus of the French state during World War I when…
Émile Durkheim
A collection of Durkheim's courses on the origins of socialism (1896), edited and published by his nephew, Marcel Mauss, in 1928
Grave of Émile Durkheim, the founder of sociology, in Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, France
Cover of the French edition of The Rules of Sociological Method (1919)