The Individual Subject as a New Object of the Sociological Discipline ?
With the advent of globalization, the current societal hegemon of classical sociology would be in decline to benefit of the rise of individuality. The later now occupy an analytical centrality within the sociology of postmodernity. This article aims to trace the processual emergence of the individual subject within sociological discipline, before raising some challenges facing his current search on the coming-society. At the heart of this slow rise of subjectivity, the new sociology of the individual seem to carry the load to draw up the theoretical and conceptual contours of the new complex configuration of human societies that, for many, remains has to be written. It also goes into the epistemological become of this original approach to new social processes.