Georges Davy

Georges Davy (1883 to 1976) was a French sociologist, born in Bernay and dying in Coutances, who was a student and disciple of Émile Durkheim. With Marcel Mauss and Paul Huvelin he pioneered anthropological studies of the origins of the idea of contract, and his La foi jurée (1922) is a sociological study of the problem of contract and the formation of the contractual bond. He edited a selection of Durkheim's texts with a study of his sociological system in 1911 and Durkheim's Leçons de sociologie in 1950, and wrote Le droit, l'idéalisme et l'expérience (1922), with Alexandre Moret Des clans aux empires (1923) on social organization among so called primitive peoples and in the ancient Orient, Éléments de sociologie (1929), Sociologues d'hier et d'aujourd'hui (1931) and a study of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau (1953). The atlas holds him as a member of the Durkheimian school.