Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde’s most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers. Tarde’s landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be explained within the context of broader social patterns. Unlike the mass society theorists that followed in his wake, Tarde integrated his discussions of societal change at the macrosocietal and individual levels, anticipating later twentieth-century thinkers who fused the studies of mass communications and public opinion research. Terry N. Clark’s introduction, considered the premier guide to Tarde’s opus, accompanies this important work.

Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence: Selected Papers (Heritage of Sociology Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Janowitz, Morris

Tarde, Gabriel

Social Sciences

University of Chicago Press

During his lifetime and for decades after, the writings of the French magistrate and scholar Gabriel Tarde exercised considerable influence in Europe, and the United States, extending to such diverse fields as social theory, political philosophy, and psychology. Yet Tarde's intellectual accomplishments also merit honorable status in the history of criminology, where the focus of his labors was the attempt to forge a compromise between classical jurisprudence and positivism. Tarde creatively applied a general system of social psychological theory to crime and penality. He led the struggle against Lombrosian criminal anthropology and against the scientism of Franco-Belgian moral statisticians. He also participated in well-publicized and occasionally quite acrimonious debates with ?mile Durkheim about the supposed normality of crime. His ideas are difficult to grasp. The reader of Penal Philosophy may discover in any of its nine chapters a diversity of subjects attacked with different modes of reasoning supported by contradictory discursive techniques. Tarde's literary style is frequently convoluted, although sometimes quite elegant. It is often irritatingly polemical and even obscure. Nevertheless, within this volume one can discern that the several strands of Tarde's criminology are in fact complementary approaches to a common goal, namely, the procurement of an acceptable "neo-classical" basis for criminal responsibility and punishment. Tarde constructs a sociological explanation of crime in which the individual is ultimately the principal actor, and suggests forms of penalty whose principles avoided the determinist implications of positivism. In these ways, Tarde's Penal Philosophy helped to forge the dominant features of neoclassical jurisprudence. This book will be of keen interest to students of criminology, jurisprudence, and sociology.

Penal Philosophy (Law and Society Series)

Beirne, Piers

Philosophy

Routledge

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Penal Philosophy

Patterson Smith

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Underground Man (Classics of Science Fiction) (English and French Edition)

Politics & Government

Hyperion Pr

Gabriel Tarde's Monadology and Sociology, originally published in 1893, is a remarkable and unclassifiable book. It sets out a theory of 'universal sociology', which aims to explicate the essentially social nature of all phenomena, including the behaviour of atoms, stars, chemical substances and living beings. He argues that all of nature consists of elements animated by belief and desire, which form social aggregates analogous to those of human societies and institutions. In developing this central insight, Tarde outlines a metaphysical system which builds on both classical rationalist philosophy and the latest scientific theories of the time, in a speculative synthesis of extraordinary range and power. Tarde's work has only recently returned to prominence after a long eclipse. His work was an important influence on later theorists including Deleuze and Latour, and has been widely discussed in the social sciences, but has rarely been a focus of philosophical interest. The translator's afterword provides an explication of the key ideas in the text and situates Tarde's theory within the context of the philosophical tradition, arguing for the importance of the text as a highly original work of systematic ontology, and for its importance for contemporary theoretical debates.

Monadology and Sociology

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L'expression psychologie collective ou psychologie sociale est souvent comprise en un sens chimérique qu'il importe avant tout d'écarter. Il consiste à concevoir un esprit collectif, une conscience sociale, un nous, qui existerait en dehors ou au-dessus des esprits individuels. Nous n'avons nul besoin, à notre point de vue, de cette conception mystérieuse pour tracer entre la psychologie ordinaire et la psychologie sociale - que nous appellerions plus volontiers inter-spirituelle - une distinction très nette. Pendant que la première, en effet, s'attache aux rapports de l'esprit avec l'universalité des autres êtres extérieurs, la seconde étudie, ou doit étudier, les rapports mutuels des esprits, leurs influences unilatérales et réciproques - unilatérales d'abord, réciproques après.

L'opinion et la foule (French Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

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En este estudio, Gabriel Tarde analiza el fenómeno de la imitación en la sociedad humana, explorando sus causas y consecuencias. Con una prosa clarividente y un enfoque perspicaz, Las Leyes de la Imitación es un libro imprescindible para cualquier persona interesada en la sociología y la psicología social. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Las Leyes De La Imitación: Estudio Sociológico... (Spanish Edition)

History

Legare Street Press

La Philosophie Penale (French Edition)

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Literary

Kessinger Publishing

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Etudes De Psychologie Sociale (1898) (French Edition)

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Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence: Selected Papers (Heritage of Sociology Series)

Penal Philosophy (Law and Society Series)

Penal Philosophy

Underground Man (Classics of Science Fiction) (English and French Edition)

Monadology and Sociology

L'opinion et la foule (French Edition)

Las Leyes De La Imitación: Estudio Sociológico... (Spanish Edition)

La Philosophie Penale (1903) (French Edition)

Etudes De Psychologie Sociale (1898) (French Edition)

Etudes De Psychologie Sociale (1898) (French Edition)