Towards a reflexive intelligence of emerging sociology in France around 1900

Towards a Phenomenology of Sociology and a Sociology of Phenomenology

Towards a sociology of disease.

We argue for a sociology of health, illness, and disease. Under the influence of Talcott Parsons, the social study of health began as medical sociology and then morphed into sociology of health and illness, focusing largely on the social aspects of health-related topics. Social scientists have been reluctant to tackle disease in its physiological and biological manifestations. The result is an ...

Towards a Computational Account of Reflexive Consciousness

This paper offers a preliminary sketch for an account of reflexive consciousness based on an implemented architecture that combines a global workspace architecture with an internally closed sensorimotor loop. The proposed account extends the theoretical framework of the already implemented architecture with to two concepts that structure the flow of consciously processed information. First, con...

Towards a Cultural Sociology of Popular Music

France in the era of Mendelism (1900-1930).

This paper describes and explains the reception of Mendelism among French biologists at the beginning of the 20th Century. Three dimensions of description must be taken into account: scholarly diffusion; transmission of the new science through teaching and textbooks; and effective research. These three axes of description do not provide the same picture: Mendelian research was widely reported a...