In La Barrière et le Niveau (1925), the French philosopher Edmond Goblot applied a logic of quality to the social world. The major thesis which Goblot defended at that time was: having no titles or property, the bourgeois class constructed itself superficially through value judgements, building upon commonly shared appreciations, however intrinsically contradictory they may be. If we accept this logical reading found in La Barrière et le Niveau, then two different types of paralogism, useful for sociological theory, merit consideration: paralogisms of criteria and paralogisms of judgement. When interpreted in this way, Goblot’s work presents a threefold theoretical interest: it associates logic and sociology in an original way; it illustrates the heuristic relevance of a social ontology approach, and it provides a grid of sociocultural analysis of the social classes which is still relevant today.
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Logic, Paralogisms and Social Distinction
Michel Lallement
The Gift of The Nation
Marcel Mauss and the Intersocial Turn of Sociology
Francesco Callegaro
extirpated was connected, for Mauss, with the spontaneous nationalism of the people only in the following way. During the nineteenth century, the ‘sophisms of political interest’ had succeeded in imposing everywhere the same ‘paralogism’ according to which
In Durkheimian Studies
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- 01 Dec 2021
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