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Gabriel Tarde (
March 12,
1843 in
Sarlat,
France –
May 13,
1904 in
Paris)
French sociologist, criminologist and
social psychologist who conceived sociology as based on small
psychological interactions among individuals (much as if it were
chemistry), the fundamental forces being
imitation and
innovation.
Among the concepts that Tarde initiated were the "
group mind" (taken up and developed by
Gustave Le Bon, and sometimes advanced to explain so-called
herd behaviour or
crowd psychology), and
economic psychology, where he anticipated a number of modern developments. However,
Emile Durkheim's sociology overshadowed Tarde's insights, and it wasn't until US scholars, such as the
Chicago school, took up his theories that they became famous.
Everett Rogers furthered Tarde's "laws of imitation" in the 1962 book
Diffusion of innovations.
Recently, French sociologist Bruno Latour has referred to Tarde as a possible predecessor to
Actor-Network Theory in part because of Tarde's criticisms of Durkheim's conceptions of the social.
Works
- La criminalité comparée (1890)
- La philosophie pénale (1890)
- Les lois de l'imitation (1890)
- Les transformations du droit. Étude sociologique (1891)
- Monadologie et sociologie (1893)
- La logique sociale (1895)
- Fragment d'histoire future (1896)
- L’opposition universelle. Essai d’une théorie des contraires. (1897)
- Écrits de psychologie sociale (1898)
- Les lois sociales. Esquisse d’une sociologie (1898)
- L'opinion et la foule (1901)
- La psychologie économique (1902-3)
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