[Collection of studies] – COLLECTION OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN MEMORY OF FRÉDÉRIC LE PLAY, published with the support of the National Centre for Scientific Research
[Collection of studies] – COLLECTION OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN MEMORY OF FRÉDÉRIC LE PLAY, published with the support of the National Centre for Scientific Research
    [Recueil d’études]
    A COLLECTION OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN MEMORY OF FRÉDÉRIC LE PLAY, published with the support of the National Centre for Scientific Research
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1956
    octavo, paperback, uncut, (cover slightly faded with a tear on the spine), interior fresh, 300 p.
    “This monument, erected in memory of Le Play on the occasion of the centenary of the Society of Economics and Social Sciences, which he founded in 1856, has been the work of some thirty economists, sociologists, jurists, historians, and geographers. After a brilliant preface, in which Grandt recalls the path opened to contemporary sociology by the experiences and teachings of the “Master,” a first series of works groups together those more directly related to his person, his life, his method, and the influence exerted by his work and that of his disciples, sometimes even beyond our borders, in England, Spain, Turkey, etc. Covering more varied subjects, the studies that make up the second series nevertheless remain linked by their shared fidelity to Le Play’s precepts: direct observation of reality and constant submission to observed facts, to the exclusion of any preconceived ideology.” Among other things, we can cite: the effects of technological progress, as discussed by Baratte; the agricultural malaise between the two technological revolutions; the mechanization of small-scale farming; rural migrations, studied respectively by Chouard, Ballu, and Toussaint; the influence of climate on human societies, analyzed by Luc-Vernon; and an interesting comparison of the French and English countryside by Gachon, which highlights the differences in appearance between the landscapes of the London Basin and those of Northwest France, despite their shared climate, soil type, geography, and history. Here, there is great disparity; there, homogeneity, with towns and countryside remaining clearly separate in France, while in England, due to a higher population density and the population shift originating from Greater London and coastal towns, they interpenetrate and merge into the features of an “urbanized bocage.” It notably includes contributions by Henri Noilhan, “Current Relevance of the Observation Method”; Raymond Delatouche, Intellectual Elites and Agriculture in the Middle Ages and Paul Ourliac, The Pyrenean Family in the Middle Ages.

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