The Individuation of the Social and the Sociological Status of the Individual
The Individuation of the Social and the Sociological Status of the Individual Part of the French sociology refers today to a “sociology of the individuals”. Having been widely dominated by an approach granting to the “social structures” an explanatory power in the final analysis, the contemporary sociology grants, sometimes, this power to the individuals. The article suggests understanding this epistemological sliding by a kind of adaptation of the sociological approach to our societies become “individualists” – that is valuing and granting to the individuals a dominating place in the way of being in society. The sociological discipline will have explicitly made it by promoting a epistemic individual and implicitly by adopting qualitative methods. The article will also discuss the question to know if there are there really an advantage as for what suggests reaching the sociological discipline.