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Chapter 3 of The Rules (on the distinction of normal and pathological) can be divided into two parts. In the first Durkheim tries to defend the idea that it is possible to get from the reality to a normative criterion, and so the science can tell the subject what to do, and from this -and […]

As we mentioned in the previous entry, chapter 3 of The Rules includes an analysis of the crime. What you want to do Durhkeim, following a strategy very similar to that of Suicide, is to show the power of the sociological analysis, and in this case your definition of normality, looking for a phenomenon where […]

Worship and purity of character will win the favour of the gods; and next to the gods, and a close second to them, men can be most helpful to men Cicero, De Officiis, II, 11. In the edition Loeb that I have. Videos placatos pietas efficiet et sanctitas, proxime autem et secundum deos men hominibus […]

Chapter 4 is the shortest of The Rules, which is already itself a text rather brief, and Durkheim makes it clear that his interest is ancillary. The difference between the normal and the pathological, the axis of the previous chapter, it is a difference that depends on the type of society: What is normal is […]

Between an ethnographical observation at the stade de France on Tuesday night and an editorial board of the journal Sociology on Thursday morning, I enjoyed a stay in paris to listen to the interventions together in a day of exciting studies, organized so this Wednesday, 12 October 2011, on the Jourdan Campus of ENS Ulm […]

As I did notice at the turn of a ticket issued here in November last year, the text is considered by many as the founding act of the social network analysis is not always translated in French. This is the article published by John A. Barnes (1918-2010) in the journal Human Relations, 1954, and entitled […]

So here is, as expected, the second stage of the operation ” Translate Barnes together “… The first step (see this post), which was simply to make known the whole of the operation, said it very well : you are already more than twenty to have proposed your participation, and it may well be that […]

Ca will, therefore, have not dragged : I had planned a 10-day period, but it took just four hours to gather the 120 euros of prize money that will allow us to purchase the rights to translation into French of the article by Barnes ! The prize pool is now closed, I have recovered the […]

In the previous post, where I put online, in PDF format and in Word format, an article by John A. Barnes that soon we will translate whole, I indicated that a prior reading of the article, by next Friday, could have as an objective to identify the terms which recur frequently and/or which are central […]

You are browsing through it may be that these lines because you just read the ticket issued in The World, in the book “Sciences & Techno” from Saturday, February 4, 2012, and that you wanted to know a little more ? Then welcome ! The format of this “card blanche” requires the concision, and little […]