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TARDE, GABRIEL (1843–1904)

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TARDE, See also:GABRIEL (1843–1904) , See also:French sociologist, was See also:born at See also:Sarlat (See also:Dordogne) in 1843. Entering the legal profession, he was for some See also:time a See also:juge d'instruction in his native See also:town, becoming afterwards See also:head of the statistical See also:department of the See also:ministry of See also:justice. He also held the professorship of See also:modern See also:philosophy at the See also:College de See also:France in See also:Paris, and was elected a member of the Academie See also:des sciences morales et politiques in 1900. Attracted to the study of See also:criminology by the opportunities of his profession, he gradually built up for himself a reputation as an acute observer of the phenomena of the subject, while at the same time he made striking and See also:original deductions of his own. See also:Special reference may be made to his theory of " See also:imitation " as outlined in See also:Les Lois de l'imitation (1890), and further elaborated in Logique sociale (1895). He also wrote L'See also:Opinion et la See also:joule (1901); Les Transformations du See also:droit (1894); Les Transformations du pouvoir (1899); L'Opposition universelle (1897) and Psychologie economique (1902; Eng. trans., Social See also:Laws, 1899). He died in Paris in 1904. See bibliography of. the sociological writings of Tarde in M. M See also:Davis, Psychological Interpretations of Society (See also:Columbia University See also:Press, 1909) ; also A. Matagrin, La Psychologie sociale de Gabriel Tarde (Paris; 1910).

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