L'absence de la sociologie politique dans les classifications durkheimiennes des sciences sociales

Abstract

Durkheim, in contributions published from 1886 to 1909, and then each y car from 1898 to 1913 in the bibliographie section of L'Année sociologique, sets up and implements a systematic classification of the social sciences. Other Durkheimians (and particularly Marcel Mauss) were to modify this classification during the interwar period. In this undertaking neither Durkheim nor the Durkheimians give any place to political sociology, which is denied the status of a social science, unlike religious sociology, moral and legal sociology or economie sociology. This exclusion of politics as an object of sociological study contributed to delaying for a half-century the development of political sociology in France.