Gabriel Tarde Quotes
Jean-Gabriel de Tarde was a French sociologist, criminologist, and social philosopher, and the chief rival of Emile Durkheim in the foundation of French sociology. After two decades as a magistrate in the Dordogne, he was appointed to the chair of modern philosophy at the College de France. The quotes below are attributed to Gabriel Tarde, organized by topic.
Gabriel Tarde on Politics
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“Society is imitation, and imitation is a kind of somnambulism.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“Every social phenomenon is the product of imitation, opposition, or adaptation.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“The social is the inter-mental.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“Innovation is the source of all real social change.”
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Attributed to Gabriel Tarde:
“The crowd is the social body in its inferior state; the public, in its superior.”