FRENCH Sociology -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Establishment of Organized Social Science -- The Politics of Social Science -- Moral Science in Government Service -- The Invasion of the Positive Sciences -- Republicanism, Science, and the Research University -- Disciplinary Frontiers -- The Tripartite Division of French Social Science -- The Literary Opposition -- 2. An Improbable Science -- Reconceptualizing Social Science -- Comte and the Second Scientific Revolution -- The British Evolution of Sociology -- The Return of Sociology in France -- Positivist Politics -- Social Reform and Social Research -- 3. Sociology and Other Disciplines in the Making -- The Two-Front Struggle of the Professoriate -- University Pioneers -- An Emerging Subfield -- From Psychology to Sociology -- Organizing a Science of Synthesis -- The Durkheimian Program -- Antagonistic Competition -- The Année sociologique -- Defining a Specialty of Generalists -- 4. The Metamorphoses of Durkheimian Scholarship -- The Contours of Sociology -- The End of a Collective Enterprise -- Conflicting Interpretations -- To Profess or to Inquire? -- Recruitment Patterns -- Social Images of Sociology -- The Centre de documentation sociale -- The Durkheimian Legacy -- 5. Pioneers by Default? -- Between Political Commitment and Policy Expertise -- Sociology at the Sorbonne -- Fieldwork as Vocation? -- Research Groups -- No Man's Land -- Reconfiguring the Social Sciences -- 6. Cycles of Expansion and Field Transformations -- The Structuralist Boom and After -- Research Policy and the Research Sector -- Teaching Sociology -- Publishing Sociology -- Rhetoric and Reality of Professionalization -- Conclusion -- 7. Intellectual Styles and the Dynamics of Research Groups -- Beyond the Sociology of Work -- Social Action and Public Sociology.

Organizational Analysis and Policy Sociology -- The Methodological Imperative -- Reflexive Sociology -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: What Is French about Sociology in France? -- Notes -- Index.