Preliminary stage of the sociology of management formation in france

The subject of the presented study is associated with one of thefundamental stages in the formation of the direction of the French sociological school related to the study of managerial processes in theframework of social organization. A preliminary analysis is made of the influence exerted on the sociology of managing social philosophy and academic tradition. The contribution of the most prominent representatives of the classical period in the history of sociological science, O. Conte and E. Durkheim, to the formation of the French management sociology in the second half of the twentieth century is traced.