Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

Michel Wieviorka

Neuf leçons de sociologie

  • Michel Wieviorka
    Paris, Editions Robert Laffont, octobre 2008, 342 p.


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    Nine lessons in sociology
    Massive changes are altering the planet and the tools available for the consideration of these phenomenons are evolving at top speed. In the space of a few years, my generation of social science researchers has witnessed the collapse of functionalism, the rise, then the decline, of structuralism, the peaking then the weakening of Marxism, the success of symbolic interactionism, the rise in popularity of various forms of methodological individualism, the return of the theme of the Subject, etc.
    This is not evidence of a crisis but of a change in our ways of thinking and of approaching a changing world. This transformation applies to all spheres of learning and not uniquely to the social sciences, but the latter are in the front line and called on to play a central role.
    The aim of this book is, in the first instance, to focus on the most promising analytical tools. Thereafter, in the light of these tools, the aim is to study phenomenon such as social movements, diversity, collective memory, violence, terrorism or yet again racism in order to grasp the world in which we live in all its complexity.



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