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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    Tratado de sociología . by Gurvitch, Georges

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    Tres capítulos de historia de la sociología : Comte, Marx y Spencer. by Gurvitch, Georges

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    Teoría de las clases sociales / by Gurvitch, Georges

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    Traite de sociologie / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1960
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    El concepto de clases sociales de Marx a nuestros dias / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1960
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    Sociología del derecho / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1945
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    Los fundadores franceses de la sociología contemporánea : Saint - Simon y Proudhon / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1958
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    Dialéctica y sociología / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1965
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    Tres capítulos de historia de la sociología : Comte, Marx y Spencer / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1970
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    El concepto de clases sociales : de Marx a nuestros días / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1957
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    L'idée du droit social / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1932
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    Las tendencias actuales de la filosofía alemana / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1939
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    Eléments de sociologie juridique / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1940
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    Las formas de la sociabilidad : ensayos de sociología / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1941
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    Sociology of law / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1942
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    Déterminismes sociaux et liberté humaine / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1955
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    Controle social / by Gurvitch, Georges

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    L'expérience juridique : et la philosophie pluraliste du droit / by Gurvitch, Georges

    Published 1935
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    Essais de sociologie / by Gurvitch, Georges

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