AKA Jean-Gabriel de Tarde

Born: 12-Mar-1843
Birthplace: Sarlat-la-Canéda, Dordogne, France
Died: 13-May-1904
Location of death: Paris, France
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Sociologist

Nationality: France
Executive summary: Group mind, Theory of Imitation

French sociologist, born at Sarlat (Dordogne) in 1843. Entering the legal profession, he was for some time a juge d'instruction in his native town, becoming afterwards head of the statistical department of the ministry of justice. He also held the professorship of modern philosophy at the Collège de France in Paris, and was elected a member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques in 1900. Attracted to the study of criminology by the opportunities of his profession, he gradually built up for himself a reputation as an acute observer of the phenomena of the subject, while at the same time he made striking and original deductions of his own. Special reference may be made to his theory of imitation as outlined in Les Lois de l'imitation (1890), and further elaborated in Logique sociale (1895). He also wrote L'Opinion et la foule (1901); Les Transformations du droit (1894); Les Transformations du pouvoir (1899); L'Opposition universelle (1897) and Psychologie économique (1902; Eng. translation as Social Laws, 1899). He died in Paris in 1904.

    University: Modern Philosophy, Collège de France, Paris

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