ABSTRACT
For several decades, sociology has become a topic of study for sociologists of knowledge.2 This, together with the renewal of a sociological interest for historical studies on the one hand and for Emile Durkheim3 on the other, seems to weigh in favor of a detailed examination of the socio-intellectual community which formed around its leader and remained in the avant-garde of French sociology 40 years.4 A fruitful way of approaching the Durkheimian School would be to treat it in a
Durkheimian fashion, i.e. as a social phenomenon, hence the lead citation of this article.
