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Abstract
‘The Anthem Companion to Gabriel Tarde’ offers the best contemporary work on Gabriel Tarde, written by the best scholars currently working in this field. Original, authoritative and wide-ranging, the critical assessments of this volume will make it ideal for Tarde students and scholars alike.
‘Anthem Companions to Sociology’ offer authoritative and comprehensive assessments of major figures in the development of sociology from the last two centuries. Covering the major advancements in sociological thought, these companions offer critical evaluations of key figures in the American and European sociological tradition, and will provide students and scholars with both an in-depth assessment of the makers of sociology and chart their relevance to modern society.
Dr Robert Leroux is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover 1 | ||
| Front Matter | ii | ||
| Half-title | i | ||
| Title page | iii | ||
| Copyright information | iv | ||
| Dedication | v | ||
| Table of Contents | vii | ||
| Chapter Int-11 | 1 | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| References | 3 | ||
| Chapter 1 Forgotten Social Psychologies: Gabriel Tarde’s Formulations | 5 | ||
| The Evolution of Tarde’s œuvre: Problems of Slow Gestation, Dissemination, Expansion and Repetition | 7 | ||
| Four Attempts to Create a Systematic Tardean Social Psychology | 10 | ||
| How Tarde’s two-volume “Social Psychology” (Tarde 1887) lost its title | 10 | ||
| Tarde’s Études de psychologie sociale | 13 | ||
| The unwritten “Interpsychologie” and the Psychologie économique (Tarde 1902) | 14 | ||
| Tardean social psychology after 1904 | 16 | ||
| Some Hypotheses about the Disappearance of Tarde’s Social-Psychological Ideas | 20 | ||
| The debates between Tarde and Durkheim: Intellectual bifurcation of paradigm/exemplars | 21 | ||
| Institutional backing for the ideas of Tarde and Durkheim: Jobs and journals in the paradigm/community | 25 | ||
| The social and political climate in France | 27 | ||
| Tarde’s partial reception in America: Cultural and linguistic barriers or preference for homegrown alternatives? | 29 | ||
| Assimilation of Tarde’s Ideas by Others and Priority Disputes | 33 | ||
| Some Speculation about How Interaction Theories Fall into Epistemological Voids | 37 | ||
| References | 39 | ||
| Chapter 2 Rediscovering Gabriel Tarde | 49 | ||
| Why Tarde’s Reputation Waned | 50 | ||
| Why and Where Tarde Is Resurfacing | 51 | ||
| Mass communication | 51 | ||
| Diffusion research | 52 | ||
| Interpersonal influence | 53 | ||
| Public opinion | 54 | ||
| Public space | 55 | ||
| References | 57 | ||
| Chapter 3 Tarde and the Maddening Crowd | 61 | ||
| The unconscious in popular action: Freud and Pareto | 62 | ||
| The Irrationalists | 64 | ||
| The Irrationalists after a hundred years of empirical inquiry | 66 | ||
| Conclusion | 68 | ||
| References | 69 | ||
| Chapter 4 On Gabriel Tarde’s Psychologie Économique | 71 | ||
| Different Readings of Tarde’s Last Work | 71 | ||
| Discussion of the 1902 Text | 75 | ||
| Opening Up New Avenues | 79 | ||
| References | 85 | ||
| Chapter 5 Gabriel Tarde’s Sociology of Power | 87 | ||
| The Means, Sources and Modes of Constitution of Power | 87 | ||
| From Power to Elites | 92 | ||
| Tarde’s Sociology of Power in Perspective | 96 | ||
| References | 100 | ||
| Chapter 6 Gabriel Tarde: the “Swallow” of French Criminology | 103 | ||
| References | 117 | ||
| Chapter 7 Tarde and Durkheimian Sociology | 119 | ||
| A Theory of Imitation | 119 | ||
| The Logic of Social Action | 122 | ||
| Opposition | 124 | ||
| Are There Any Social Laws? | 126 | ||
| Tarde versus Durkheim | 127 | ||
| Gabriel Tarde and the members of the Durkheimian school | 130 | ||
| References | 132 | ||
| Chapter 8 From the Philosophy of History to Social Science: Gabriel Tarde, Reader of Cournot | 135 | ||
| References | 146 | ||
| Chapter 9 Tarde and Simmel on Sociability and Unsociability | 147 | ||
| Interests and Attractions | 155 | ||
| The Attractive Unsociability of Cities | 157 | ||
| References | 163 | ||
| Chapter 10 Babylonian “Socialism” Versus Troglodyte “Communism”: Two Utopias of Gabriel Tarde | 165 | ||
| Introduction | 165 | ||
| The Plot | 166 | ||
| The Pure Social State | 171 | ||
| The Discontents of the Subterranean Society | 173 | ||
| Two Utopias in Tarde and Beyond | 177 | ||
| Two Kinds of Sharing | 180 | ||
| Afterword | 184 | ||
| References | 185 | ||
| Chapter 11 Gabriel Tarde’s Manuscripts and Library: Construction and Uses of Database at the End... | 187 | ||
| The Documentary Material, the Genesis of the Work | 188 | ||
| The manuscripts | 188 | ||
| The library’s Tarde collection | 193 | ||
| Handwritten Library and Printed Library, the Tarde Database | 195 | ||
| Early readings, early writings | 195 | ||
| Early utterances of Tarde’s thought system | 198 | ||
| Ranking, rereading and rewriting practices | 200 | ||
| References | 202 | ||
| End Matter | 205 | ||
| List of Contributors | 205 | ||
| Index | 207 |