The French Sociologists

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 …showed first 75 words of 288 total…

…showed last 75 words of 288 total…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 2b.