The rise of social science disciplines in France

Studies on the history and the institutionalization of sociology in France, many of them coordinated by Philippe Besnard, have developed by moving forward in time. Taking off in the 1970s with Steven Lukes’ biography of Durkheim, Victor Karady’s editions of Durkheim and Mauss and several research projects, Philippe Besnard edited the series of well known special issues of the Revue française de sociologie about sociology and related disciplines, ranging from the end of the nineteenth century ..