Georges Gurvitch

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Georges Gurvitch (or Jorge Gurvitch, born Georgij Davydovič Gurvič; November 11, 1894, Novorossiysk - December 12, 1965, Paris) was a Russian born French sociologist and jurist. One of the leading sociologists of his times, he was a specialist of the sociology of knowledge. In 1944 he founded the journal Cahiers internationaux de Sociologie.

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• Essai de Sociologie, (1939)
• Sociology of law, (1942)
• La vocation actuelle de la sociologie, (1950)
• Le concept des classes sociales de Marx à nos jours, (1954)
• The Spectrum of Time, (1958)
• Dialectique et sociologie, (1962)
• The Social Frameworks of Knowledge, (1972)