H.G. Wells

Gabriel Tarde

Underground Man

Gabriel Tarde ranks as one of the most outstanding sociologists of nineteenth-century France, though not as well known by English readers as his peers Comte and Durkheim. This book makes available Tarde’s most important work and demonstrates his continuing relevance to a new generation of students and thinkers. Tarde’s landmark research and empirical analysis drew upon collective behavior, mass communications, and civic opinion as elements to be explained within the context of broader social patterns. Unlike the mass society theorists that followed in his wake, Tarde integrated his discussions of societal change at the macrosocietal and individual levels, anticipating later twentieth-century thinkers who fused the studies of mass communications and public opinion research. Terry N. Clark’s introduction, considered the premier guide to Tarde’s opus, accompanies this important work, reprinted here for the first time in forty years.

Selected Papers

Gabriel Tarde On Communication and Social Influence

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Laws of Imitation

1re Section: Législation pénale

Ve Congrès pénitentiaire international (Paris - 1895).

Fragments of Future Histories

Underground

Gabriel de Tarde

Tarde constructs a sociological explanantion of crime in which the individual is ultimately the principal actor, and suggests forms of penalty whose principles avoided the determinist implications of positivism. The book should be of interest to students of criminology, jurisprudence and sociology.

Penal Philosophy

Gabriel Tarde

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