Paul Fauconnet (March 13, 1874 in
Saint-Denis – 1938) was a French
sociologist who is best known as a contributor to the ''
L'Année Sociologique''.
Fauconnet
aggregated in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in
philosophy
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in 1895. He also earned a further doctorate in
law
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in 1920, although his interest in the law was purely scholarly and he never practiced as a lawyer. He became a professor at the faculty of letters in 1907 at the
University of Toulouse
The University of Toulouse (french: Université de Toulouse) was a university in the French city of Toulouse that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the Frenc ...
and later chargé de cours (
lecturer
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) at the faculty of letters in 1921 in
Paris
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, obtaining a chair in 1932. His dissertation was entitled ''La responsabilité: Etude de sociologie'' (Paris: Alcan, 1920; 2nd edn 1928). It adopts and develops
Emile Durkheim
Emil or Emile may refer to:
Literature
*'' Emile, or On Education'' (1762), a treatise on education by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
* ''Émile'' (novel) (1827), an autobiographical novel based on Émile de Girardin's early life
*'' Emil and the Detecti ...
's teachings on the nature of criminal justice and punishment.
Durkheim's definition of sociology as "the science of institutions, of their genesis and functioning" was derived from Fauconnet's contribution on sociology, coauthored 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 a ...
, to ''
La Grande Encyclopédie
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'' in 1901.
References
External links
Book ''La Responsabilité. Etude de Sociologie''free to download.
free to download (Les classiques des sciences sociales)
Further reference
* Roger Cotterrell, ''Emile Durkheim: Law in a Moral Domain'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press / Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999) pp. 106–109.
1874 births
1938 deaths
French sociologists
University of Toulouse faculty
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