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The Battle for Society Baudry Rocquin

British Sociologists and French ‘Sociologues’ in the Interwar Years

Baudry Rocquin

British Sociologists and French ‘Sociologues’ in the Interwar Years The Battle for Society

Baudry Rocquin University of Strasbourg Strasbourg, France

ISBN 978-3-030-10912-7 ISBN 978-3-030-10913-4  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10913-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018965774 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors, and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Marina Lohrbach_shutterstock.com This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

To Julie

Foreword

Studying the history of sociology has been extremely unpopular, the study of the history of British sociology particularly so. This is the case despite the fact that many in the discipline have only a limited awareness of its history. The preference of many is for ‘new’ ideas, and there is a constant search for ‘new directions’ and ‘new perspectives’, as if ‘old’ ideas are unacceptable simply because they are old. ‘Why’, it is often asked, ‘should we know anything about the sociologists of the last century, let alone the nineteenth century, or the long-past centuries before that? What can they tell us, when our object of study is the present century?’ One answer to this question, of course, is that any practitioner of the subject might be expected to want to know something about its history and how we arrived at the stage that we have currently achieved. The history of our discipline is, or should be, a part of our own disciplinary identity. Surely, having some understanding about how the figur