An ethics of sociological knowledge?
On the basis of a general reflection on the resurgence of the ethical discourse in sociology and the social sciences, the paper aims at defining a problematic of ethics that would characterize the sociological knowledge. For that purpose, are envisaged, first, the modalities of a translation of Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical model of ethics according to the sociological object. Secondly, on the basis of the methodological analysis of the exemplary work The Children of Sánchez: Autobiography of a Mexican family (1961) of Oscar Lewis, a researcher engaged in a plurality of ethical engagements, is highlighted this necessity of refocusing the researcher’s ethical engagement on an ethics of knowledge.