Georges Gurvitch

thumb Georges Gurvitch (; October 20, 1894, Novorossiysk – December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian-born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of the sociology of knowledge. In 1944 he founded the journal ''Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie''. He held a chair in sociology at the Sorbonne in Paris. An outspoken advocate of Algerian decolonization, Gurvitch and his wife were the victim of terrorist attack by the far-right nationalist group, L'O.A.S on June 22, 1962. Their apartment was destroyed by a bomb, and they took refuge for a time at the house of painter Marc Chagall.

Gurvitch is an important figure in the development of sociology of law. Like other legal sociologists, he insisted that law is not merely the rules or decisions produced, interpreted and enforced by agencies of the state, such as legislatures, courts and police. Groups and communities of various kinds, whether formally structured or informally organised, produce regulation for themselves and others, which can properly be considered law from a sociological standpoint. Gurvitch's legal pluralism is, however, far more rigorous and radical than that of most legal sociologists and locates an immense variety of types of law in the various kinds of sociality—or social interaction—that he distinguished in his writings. He saw the need to stress the reality and significance of social law and social rights, in opposition to what he termed individual law. His Bill of Social Rights, drafted at the end of World War II was an attempt to state a blueprint of a legal framework of social law for a postwar world in which the idea of human rights had become newly powerful.

The sociologist and ideologue of the 1979 Iranian revolution Ali Shariati studied under Gurvitch in the 1960s during his studies in France at the University of Sorbonne. Provided by Wikipedia
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    The social frameworks of knowledge / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1971
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    Sociometry in France and the United States, a symposium. by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1950
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    The spectrum of social time / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1964
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    Sociology of law / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 2001
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    Le temps présent et l'idée du droit social / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1931
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    Sociology of law by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 2020
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    The social frameworks of knowledge. by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1971
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    Sociología del conocimiento / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1953
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    The bill of social rights / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1946
    Book
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    Sociology of law. by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1947
    Book
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    Études sur les classes sociales / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1966
    Book
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    Dialectique et sociologie. by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1962
    Book
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    Traité de sociologie / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1967
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    Twentieth century sociology / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 1946
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    Elementos de sociología jurídica / by Gurvitch, Georges, 1894-1965

    Published 2019
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    Twentieth century sociology /

    Published 1945
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