ABSTRACT
This Durkheim-Weber symposium is an historic reunion of two lineages, of two major clans: French-speaking and German-speaking sociology who have not met in a dialogic encounter situation, such as one envisioned for sociology by Donald Levine (Camic and Joas 2004). As far as I know, there has not been in the recent past a joint conference bringing together representatives of French-speaking and German-speaking sociologists similar to various conferences bringing together American and German sociologists.2
