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Georges Davy

Georges Davy

French sociologist

Georges Davy (French: [davi]; 31 December 1883, Bernay – 27 July 1976, Coutances) was a French sociologist.[1] He was a student and disciple of Émile Durkheim. With Marcel Mauss and Paul Huvelin he pioneered anthropological studies of the origins of the idea of contract.

Georges Davy

Works

  • (ed.) Émile Durkheim: choix de textes avec étude du système sociologique by Émile Durkheim. 1911.
  • Le droit, l'idéalisme et l'expérience, 1922
  • La foi jurée: étude sociologique du problème du contrat: la formation du lien contractuel, 1922
  • (with Alexandre Moret) Des clans aux empires; l'organisation sociale chez les primitifs et dans l'Orient ancien, 1923
  • Éléments de sociologie, 1929.
  • Sociologues d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, 1931
  • (ed.) Leçons de sociologie by Émile Durkheim. 1950.
  • Thomas Hobbes et J.J. Rousseau, 1953.
  • L'homme; le fait social et le fait politique, 1973

References

  1. [1]
    Alan D. Schrift (2009). "Georges Davy". Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers. John Wiley & Sons. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4051-4394-3. Retrieved 10 December 2012.

Further reading

  • Roger Cotterrell, Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999, ch. 8 (on Davy, Mauss and Huvelin).


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