Reestablishment of the Intermediate Groups in Post-Revolutionary France : Le Play and His Followers(SYMPOSIUM PAPERS READ AT THE AUTUMN CONFERENCE, 1989-The Organization Process of Capitalist Societies after the Bourgeois Revolutions: Focusing on the Intermediate Social Groups-)

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  • フランス革命以後における中間集団の再建 : ル・プレェ学派を中心として(大会報告 共通論題:ブルジョワ的変革以後における資本主義社会組織化の諸局面)
  • フランス革命以後における中間集団の再建--ル・プレェ学派を中心として
  • フランス カクメイ イゴ ニ オケル チュウカン シュウダン ノ サイケン ル

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The French Revolution finally disorganized the "corps intermediaires" of the former society which had subsisted since the medieval age. As the result, there was born a social system consisting of the "civil society and the modern state". Many of the pre-marxist socialists and the sociologists in 19th century France considered this situation as a "disorganization of society" or a "crisis of human beings". Then they built the new social theories, which aimed the "reorganization or the reestablishment of society". The common characteristic of these theories is that they focussed on the intermediate social groups. It is the school of F. Le Play (1806-1882) that developed the most systematic and comprehensive group-theory in those social thinkers. Le Play systematized for the first time his theory of groups in one of his principal writings: The Social Reform in France (1864). But before that, he had to carry out about 300 monographs of workers' famillies in various districts in Europe, which resulted in the work entitled The European Workers (1855). This is the monumental writing in the history of social researches. In this repport, I will confirm first the signification of the latter in the history of social sciences. Next, I will make clear the feature of the theory cencerning the private groups and the public groups in The Social Reform in France. And finally, I will examine the social theories of Le Play's followers, i.e. the "Social Science" group and the "Social Reform" group. In short, Le Play and his followers, in search of the strategic strongpoint for the social reorganization, widened their perspective from families to the communities and made the foundation of regionalism in France.

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  • The Journal of Agrarian History

    The Journal of Agrarian History 32 (3), 1-15, 1990

    The Agrarian History Society (Renamed as The Political Economy and Economic History Society)

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