Georges Davy (; 31 December 1883, Bernay – 27 July 1976,

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) 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.

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* (ed.) ''Émile Durkheim: choix de textes avec étude du système sociologique'' by

. 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

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