Georges Gurvitch (Russian: Гео́ргий Дави́дович Гу́рвич; 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.[1] 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.
^2007. Georges Gurvitch: Social Change. Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, Edited by George Ritzer. "Source 1[permanent dead link]", Accessed March 11, 2012.
GeorgesGurvitch (Russian: Гео́ргий Дави́дович Гу́рвич; October 20, 1894, Novorossiysk – December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian-born French sociologist...
techniques, particularly in American sociology. The term was conceived by GeorgesGurvitch in 1939, borrowing the term from the micro-physics and referring to...
Cahiers Internationaux de Sociologie (previously held by his mentor GeorgesGurvitch) and edited the series Sociologie d'Aujourd'hui at Presses Universitaires...
of law. Notably among these were Leon Petrazycki, Eugen Ehrlich and GeorgesGurvitch. For Max Weber, a so-called "legal rational form" as a type of domination...
Islamic scholar Louis Massignon, Jacques Berque and the sociologist GeorgesGurvitch. He also came to know the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that same year...
rights defender Eduard Sarkisov, football coach and a former player GeorgesGurvitch, Russian-French sociologist and philosopher Viktor Petrovich Skarzhinsky...
European sociology Dipankar Gupta (born 1949), Indian sociologist GeorgesGurvitch, Russian/French sociologist Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), Romanian sociologist...
early legal sociologists included Hugo Sinzheimer, Theodor Geiger, GeorgesGurvitch and Leon Petrażycki in Europe, and William Graham Sumner in the U.S...
and attended lectures of Raymond Aron, Roger Garaudy, Georges Politzer and GeorgesGurvitch, among others. Kürşad Atalar compares Shariati with Algazelus...
created in Paris the Center for Social Psychiatry. After the death of GeorgesGurvitch in 1965, he also became the director of the Paris Center for the Sociology...
is published Stuart C. Dodd's Dimensions of Society is published. GeorgesGurvitch's Sociology of Law is published. Siegfried Frederick Nadel's A Black...
Simone de Beauvoir's The Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter is published. GeorgesGurvitch's The Spectrum of Time is published. Fritz Heider's The Psychology of...
Alexander Chayanov, developed the consumption-labour-balance principle GeorgesGurvitch, major developer of sociology of knowledge and sociology of law Leonid...
Netherlands Information Office in New York. Parsons had mobilized GeorgesGurvitch, Conrad Arnsberg, Dr. Safranek and Theodore Abel to participate, but...
Weber, Eugen Ehrlich, Karl Renner, Karl N. Llewellyn, Theodor Geiger, GeorgesGurvitch, Nicholas S. Timasheff. The IISL has four "official languages": English...
sociology assistant at the Sorbonne by GeorgesGurvitch. In the year 1952 (following a dispute with Gurvitch), he was detached from the sociology section...
Foelix (1791–1853) founder of the science of comparative law in France. GeorgesGurvitch Claude Jorda Edouard de Laboulaye Pierre Mazeaud, president of the...
on by the likes of Alain Touraine, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Aron, GeorgesGurvitch, and Jacques Berque. Rouissi returned to Tunisia in 1966 and joined...
Marx, Friedrich Engels, George Plekhanov, Jacob Moreno, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Schopenhauer, Nicolai Hartmann, GeorgesGurvitch, Talcott Parsons, Erich...
Alexander Chayanov, developed the consumption-labour-balance principle GeorgesGurvitch, major developer of sociology of knowledge and sociology of law Leonid...
on Malebranche and Maine de Biran. For many years she worked under GeorgesGurvitch, as a sociologist and researcher at the CNRS. During the war she was...
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