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| Revue française de sociologie | |
|---|---|
| Title | Revue française de sociologie |
| Discipline | Sociology |
| Language | French |
| Publisher | Éditions Gallimard |
| Country | France |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| History | 1960–present |
Revue française de sociologie is a French-language peer-reviewed academic journal covering sociological research, theory, and empirical studies. Founded in the mid-20th century, it has served as a platform for French and international scholars associated with institutions such as the Collège de France, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and CNRS. The journal has engaged debates linked to figures and formations including Émile Durkheim, Max Weber, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, and Raymond Aron.
The journal emerged in a period marked by intellectual activity across Parisian institutions such as Sorbonne University, Université Paris Nanterre, and Université Paris-Saclay, following trajectories traced in conferences at the Collège de France and symposia organized by the CNRS. Early editorial networks involved scholars influenced by traditions from Durkheim studies to Weberian interpretive lines and dialogues with researchers connected to the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme and the École Normale Supérieure. Over successive editorial boards, the journal intersected with debates tied to the May 1968 protests, policy inquiries commissioned by the Assemblée nationale (France), and comparative studies referencing social theory from Harvard University, University of Chicago, London School of Economics, and Universität Bielefeld.
The journal publishes articles spanning structuralist and post-structuralist engagements influenced by thinkers like Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, and Jacques Derrida, as well as methodological approaches tied to Alfred Schutz and Harold Garfinkel. It addresses empirical work from researchers associated with INSEE, Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, École Polytechnique, and international collaborators from Stanford University, Yale University, Princeton University, and Columbia University. Themes have ranged across studies invoking concepts from Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Hannah Arendt, Norbert Elias, and Georg Simmel, while dialogues have cited comparative work with scholars from Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and Sciences Po.
Published quarterly by a French academic press linked to cultural institutions like Gallimard and distributed through university presses including Presses Universitaires de France in collaboration with departmental offices at Université de Strasbourg, Université Grenoble Alpes, and Université Lyon 2. Editorial boards have included professors from École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Paris and visiting editors from University of California, Berkeley and University of Toronto. Peer review follows protocols common to journals housed at INSEE research centers, with special issues guest-edited by scholars from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and University of Melbourne.
Contributors have included prominent names contributing to global sociology such as Pierre Bourdieu (in the milieu of Collège de France lectures), Michel Foucault (in debates with Gilles Deleuze), Jean Baudrillard, Alain Touraine, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Serge Paugam, Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot, and figures associated with the Annales School like Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in historiographical dialogues. International contributors have represented networks including Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, Anthony Giddens, Jürgen Habermas, Pierre Bourdieu’s interlocutors, Saskia Sassen, Manuel Castells, Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers, Donna Haraway, and Judith Butler. Landmark articles addressed topics in urban studies, labor markets, stratification, and culture with references to case studies in Marseilles, Lyon, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Rennes, Montpellier, Strasbourg, and comparative analyses involving New York City, London, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, São Paulo, Mexico City, Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo.
The journal is indexed in major bibliographic databases centered on social science literature and is tracked by indexing services that include repositories used by institutions like CNRS, INRIA, HAL (open archive), and university libraries at Université Paris 8. Its metadata is harvested for catalogs maintained by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, integrated into library systems of the European University Institute and referenced in bibliographies alongside output from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, and Routledge.
Scholarly reception situates the journal within French and comparative sociology debates that intersect with policy reports from bodies such as the Conseil économique, social et environnemental and research assessments by the Agence nationale de la recherche. Citation practices link its articles to monographs published by Éditions du Seuil and analyses in journals like Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, Sociologie du Travail, European Sociological Review, and American Journal of Sociology. The journal’s impact is evident in curricula at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Sciences Po, London School of Economics, and research centers at Max Planck Society and the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS).
Back issues are held in collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, university libraries at Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Université de Lille, Université de Montpellier, and archived in institutional repositories used by CNRS and Universidad de Buenos Aires. Subscriptions are available through academic consortia linked to HEFCE-style arrangements and handled by distribution partners serving libraries at Harvard University, Yale University, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and Columbia University.
Category:Sociology journals