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Résumé :
Sociology for Durkheim was by no means a knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together, giving place to reflective change and progressive development. This is an epistemological and political model that still retains all its relevance today: an example to be rediscovered against any reductionist conception of the vocation and object of social sciences...

Biographie:
Giovanni Paoletti, Ph.D. in Philosophy (2000, University of Pisa) and in Sociology (2003, Sciences-Po, Paris), is full Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy). He is the author of several articles and a monograph on Durkheim (Durkheim et la philosophie. Repr?sentation, r?alit? et lien social, Classiques Garnier, Paris 2012).

Massimo Pendenza, Ph.D. in Sociology (Napoli 1998) is full professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies (CES) at the University of the Salerno (Italy). He is the author of several articles, monographs, and edited books on Classical Sociology (Classical Sociology Beyond Methodological Nationalism, Brill, Leiden and Boston, 2014)....

Sommaire:
Sociology for Durkheim was by no means a knowledge closed in its specificity. It was rather an open science, permeable to contributions coming from other disciplines. For him, the task of sociology was to study what held societies together, giving place to reflective change and progressive development. This is an epistemological and political model that still retains all its relevance today: an example to be rediscovered against any reductionist conception of the vocation and object of social sciences...