How to Cite
Abstract
In this article, the author seeks to establish the central role, often passed over in silence, played by Father Clément Cormier in the history of the social sciences in Acadia, particularly in the founding of a School of Social Sciences within the Collège Saint-Joseph in Memramcook. Father Cormier’s work stemmed in part from a plan to reproduce in Acadia, on a smaller scale, an institution similar to Father Georges-Henri Lévesque’s Faculty of Social Sciences at l’Université Laval. The article also underlines the role of the social sciences in the creation of an Acadian elite that was very active during the period of modernisation in the 1960s. Résumé Dans cet article, l’auteur tente d’établir le rôle central, pourtant longtemps passé sous silence, qu’a joué le père Clément Cormier dans l’histoire des sciences sociales en Acadie, particulièrement dans la fondation d’une école des sciences sociales au sein du Collège Saint-Joseph de Memramcook. L’œuvre du père Cormier découle en partie du projet de reproduire en Acadie, à plus petite échelle, une institution similaire à l’école des sciences sociales du père Georges-Henri Lévesque, à l’Université Laval. L’article met également l’accent sur le rôle des sciences sociales dans la formation d’une élite acadienne très active au moment de la modernisation des années 1960.Copyright for articles published in this journal is retained by the author(s), with Acadiensis being granted a non-exclusive licence to each and every right in the work throughout the world. After publication of the work, the author(s) shall have the right to self-archive the work and to reprint the work in whole or in part in books authored by or edited by the author(s) without the payment of any fee. In these other formats, however, the author or authors are required to acknowledge the original publication of the work in the pages of the journal. In the case of any requests to reprint the work, Acadiensis will require a standard permission fee -- to be divided equally between the journal and the author. In the event that such requests are received by the author(s), the author(s) shall direct such requests to the journal.