The French Sociologists
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(holistic approach), during the eighteenth and nineteenth century were
much concerned with the ‘nature’ of society and of the human social institutions. Their interests
lay rather in what human society essentially is, than in the history of it’s development, either
generally or ....
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.... structure. This ‘organismic’ approach to the study of human societies had
some limitations and can be dangerously misleading.
The ‘organic’ approach reached its most sophisticated expression in the writing of the
French sociologist Émile Durkhiem, who is one of the most figures in social anthropology. With
Durkhiem, sociology had become in France a seminal discipline that broadened and transformed
the study of law, of economics, of Chinese institutions, ....
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