Georges Davy (; 31 December 1883,
Bernay – 27 July 1976,
Coutances
Coutances () is a commune in the Manche department in Normandy in north-western France.
History
Capital of the Unelli, a Gaulish tribe, the town was given the name of ''Constantia'' in 298 during the reign of Roman emperor Constantius Chloru ...
) was a French sociologist.
He was a student and disciple of
Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim ( or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, al ...
. With
Marcel Mauss
Marcel Mauss (; 10 May 1872 – 10 February 1950) was a French sociologist and anthropologist known as the "father of French ethnology". The nephew of Émile Durkheim, Mauss, in his academic work, crossed the boundaries between sociology and ...
and
Paul Huvelin
Paul-Louis Huvelin (1873–1924), generally known as Paul Huvelin, was a French legal historian.
He was a specialist in the study of the earliest forms of Roman law.
Biography
Huvelin spent almost all his career teaching in the law faculty of the ...
he pioneered anthropological studies of the origins of the idea of contract.
Works
* (ed.) ''Émile Durkheim: choix de textes avec étude du système sociologique'' by
Émile Durkheim
David Émile Durkheim ( or ; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917) was a French sociologist. Durkheim formally established the academic discipline of sociology and is commonly cited as one of the principal architects of modern social science, al ...
. 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
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).
1883 births
1976 deaths
French sociologists
French male writers
20th-century French male writers
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