Chapter ID: CBB001500088

Lamarckism and the Constitution of Sociology (2011)

unapi

This chapter examines sociology as an emerging discipline in Great Britain and France between the 1850s and the 1890s. It considers the transfer of models, metaphors, and analogies from evolutionary biology and argues that sociology emerged in continued interaction with this biology. It also analyzes interactions of social thought and Lamarckian evolutionary theories. The chapter focuses on the work of two social theorists who were influential internationally and in their respective countries, Great Britain and France---Herbert Spencer (1820--1903) and Émile Durkheim (1858--1917).

...More
Included in

Book Gissis, Snait B.; Jablonka, Eva (2011) Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology. unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB001500088/

Similar Citations

Book Beck, Naomi; (2014)
La gauche évolutionniste. Spencer et ses lecteurs en France et en Italie (/isis/citation/CBB001510177/)

Article Snait B. Gissis; (2023)
The Neo-Lamarckian Tools Deployed by the Young Durkheim: 1882–1892 (/isis/citation/CBB708515471/)

Article Renwick, Chris; (2009)
The Practice of Spencerian Science: Patrick Geddes's Biosocial Program, 1876--1889 (/isis/citation/CBB000951304/)

Book Massella, Alexandre Braga; (2010)
Durkheim: 150 anos (/isis/citation/CBB001230005/)

Article Gissis, Snait; (2002)
Late Nineteenth-Century Lamarckism and French Sociology (/isis/citation/CBB000502651/)

Article Gondermann, Thomas; (2007)
Progression and Retrogression: Herbert Spencer's Explanations of Social Inequality (/isis/citation/CBB000773673/)

Article Pŭras, Adomas; (2014)
Robert Owen in the History of the Social Sciences: Three Presentist Views (/isis/citation/CBB001214612/)

Article Gissis, Snait; (2009)
Interactions between Social and Biological Thinking: The Case of Lamarck (/isis/citation/CBB000932272/)

Article Tonkonoff, Sergio; (2014)
Crime as Social Excess: Reconstructing Gabriel Tarde's Criminal Sociology (/isis/citation/CBB001420215/)

Article Michael Ruse; (2022)
Evolution and ethics viewed from within two metaphors: machine and organism (/isis/citation/CBB267078190/)

Article Bjerre, Jørn; (2013)
The Origin of the Inner Voice: Durkheim, Christianity and the Greeks (/isis/citation/CBB001200928/)

Book Francis, Mark; (2007)
Herbert Spencer and the Invention of Modern Life (/isis/citation/CBB000774196/)

Book Fournier, Marcel; Macey, David; (2013)
Émile Durkheim: A Biography (/isis/citation/CBB001421115/)

Article Nerlich, Brigitte; (2007)
Media, Metaphors and Modelling (/isis/citation/CBB000831429/)

Book Gordon, Rae Beth; (2009)
Dances with Darwin, 1875--1910: Vernacular Modernity in France (/isis/citation/CBB000951085/)

Article Staum, Martin; (2007)
“Race” and Gender in Non-Durkheimian French Sociology, 1893--1914. (/isis/citation/CBB000930020/)

Book Bernard V Lightman; (2016)
Global Spencerism: The Communication and Appropriation of a British Evolutionist (/isis/citation/CBB496407146/)

Authors & Contributors
Gissis, Snait B.
Renwick, Chris
Tonkonoff, Sergio
Staum, Martin S.
Ruse, Michael
Pŭras, Adomas
Concepts
Sociology
Evolution
Social sciences
Science and society
Biology
Metaphors; analogies
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Ancient
21st century
18th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Italy
Greece
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment