Mike Gane is Chair of the Sociology Department at Loughborough University, and has written numerous books on ideology, cultural and literary theory, gender and social theory, including Jean Baudrillard (Pluto Press, 2000).

Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction
Mike Gane

Sociology
(with Paul Fauconnet)

Sociology: Its Divisions and Their Relative Weightings

Chapter 1. The Sequence or Order of the Parts of Sociology
Chapter 2. On the Proportions of the Parts of Sociology
Chapter 3. Concrete Divisions of Sociology
Chapter 4. The Place of Applied Sociology or Politics

Additional Bibliographical Note
Index

Having taken over the leadership of the French school of sociology after the death of his uncle, Emile Durkheim, in 1917, Mauss, celebrated author of The Gift, re-launched the flagship journal, the Année sociologique. Here are two of Mauss's most significant statements on the social sciences. The first, written with Fauconnet, outlines the methodological orientations of the school. The second examines the internal organization of sociology as a division of intellectual labor. The essays are of interest to anthropologists as well as sociologists for Mauss, like Durkheim, did not distinguish in detail the two disciplines.