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What Has Sociology Achieved? The French Paradox

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It is curious that in France, the land of Le Play, Durkheim, Mauss and Halbwachs, to name but a few of the more celebrated members of the sociological Pantheon, the institutionalisation of the teaching of this discipline did not occur until the beginning of the 1960s. Before then, certainly, sociology had been taught in faculties of letters, but the sociology degree appeared only towards the end of the 1950s at the prestigious Sorbonne, in Paris; it then spread progressively into the provincial universities. As for the National Centre for Scientific Research, the CNRS, created by statute in 1948, though it was to be a driving force in the development of research, this did not become perceptible until about fifteen years after the end of the war.

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  1. Research in the Groupe Lyonnais de Sociologie Industrielle (CNRS), University of Lyon II, Maison Rhône-Alpes des Sciences de l’Homme, 14 avenue Berthelot, 69007, Lyon, France

    Philippe Bernoux (Director)

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    Christopher G. A. Bryant

  2. Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, Netherlands

    Henk A. Becker

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Bernoux, P. (1990). What Has Sociology Achieved? The French Paradox. In: Bryant, C.G.A., Becker, H.A. (eds) What Has Sociology Achieved?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20518-9_10

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