Historians' contribution to the renewal of sociology of the State: intersecting French and American views

Sociology of the State is currently undergoing profound renewal based in large part on conclusions of studies by historians, studies whose numbers have greatly increased over the last ten years. Those studies suggest the relevance of breaking with the one-dimensional approach to the State usually ex...

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Published in:Revue française de sociologie 2011-07, Vol.52 (3), p.579-602
Main Author: Gensburger, Sarah
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
France
Historians
Interventionism
Jacobinism
Political science
Society
Sociology
State
U.S.A
United States of America
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Summary:Sociology of the State is currently undergoing profound renewal based in large part on conclusions of studies by historians, studies whose numbers have greatly increased over the last ten years. Those studies suggest the relevance of breaking with the one-dimensional approach to the State usually expressed in terms of 'more' or 'less'. While French historians have been 'discovering' the presence of society at the very core of the 'strong' State presumably incarnated by Jacobin France, their American colleagues have been 'revealing' the social interventionism of America's presumably 'weak' State. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0035-2969
DOI:10.3917/rfs.523.0579