Paul Fauconnet
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Paul Fauconnet was a French
France
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 sociologist
Sociology
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 who is best known as a contributor to the Annee Sociologique.

Fauconnet aggregated
Agrégation
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 in philosophy in 1892 and earned his doctorate in philosophy
Philosophy
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 in 1895. He also earned a further doctorate in law
Law
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 in 1920, although his interest in the law was purely scholarly and he never practiced as a lawyer. He became a professor at the faculty of letters in 1907 at the University of Toulouse
University of Toulouse
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 and later chargé de cours at the faculty of law in 1921 in Paris
Paris
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. His dissertation was entitled Responsibility: A Sociological Study.

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