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The durkheimian School and the Economy

Abstract

'pbEmile Durkheim and its main collaborators — Maurice Halbwachs, Marcel Mauss and François Simiand — devoted much of their sociological work to the study of economic facts. The ensuing economic sociology has developed in two directions. The first is to criticise the political economy by correcting its methodology and by examining the institutional conditions of the modern economy (contract, social justice, trade associations, etc.). Simiand and Halbwachs add to this the study of labour market behaviour or consumer goods, before reflecting on the evolution of capitalism in the interwar period. In the second, religious sociology is used to uncover the social origins of the categories of the economy. As outlined by Durkheim, this programme is being implemented by Mauss to study the exchange of donations and currency. ‘/PB’ pbThe presentation of these research programmes and their main results is the first subject dealt with by Philippe Steiner. The second is to show the originality and still alive character of the durkheimian approach to the economy. Comparing Auguste Comte’s and Karl Marx’s approaches, Philippe Steiner demonstrates how the durkheimian school has been able to identify the importance that economic representations of actors, experts or lay people, have taken in the functioning of the modern economy. On this basis, the intersection between religious sociology and economic sociology continues the reflections of Max Weber and assesses the impact of the school system on the dissemination of economic knowledge. ‘/DB

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