Natural construction of community: resemblance and asimilation

In the early twentieth century, Tarde was one of the most eminent European sociologists. He wrote books reprinted and translated into numerous languages. Their socio-psychological explanation of individual action had seduced a broad audience for its affinity with hypnosis and spiritualism then in vogue. He was awarded prestigious medals. But his death occurred in 1904 also entombed his work. There was no continuity of his ideas. Social laws were quickly relegated sociological museum of curiosities. Adapted from the source document.