Le penchant quetelésien de Durkheim

Adolphe Quetelet's work was almost exclusively studied by the historians of statistics. The study presents here the innovations of Quetelet regarding empirical analysis of society, then those of Durkheim, in Le Suicide, in the light of the previous ones; and specifies what can be easily intepre...

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Published in:Année sociologique 2017-01, Vol.67 (1), p.255
Main Author: Siracusa, Jacques
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
Durkheim, Emile (1858-1917)
Historians
Loans
Probability
Suicide
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Summary:Adolphe Quetelet's work was almost exclusively studied by the historians of statistics. The study presents here the innovations of Quetelet regarding empirical analysis of society, then those of Durkheim, in Le Suicide, in the light of the previous ones; and specifies what can be easily intepreted as loans. To this end, the study distinguishes two steps of Quetelet's work: the first one is the construction of the 'penchant' of the average man, the second is his probability theory. The former, the least known, is the one by which the work of Durkheim and his collective psychology are most inspired, in the point to reproduce some initial analogies and ambiguities.
ISSN:0066-2399
1969-6760