Narrative sociology: a civil handicraft
This article presents a discussion on narrative sociology as well as two short stories. The construction of the stories complies with the discipline’s traditions by using knowledge accumulated by social sciences as a reading grid of social reality and mobilizing the classic tools of sociology. Investigating is at the heart of this way of practicing sociology. But storytelling also follows another tradition, which is specific to the human species : that of orally and civilly exchanging on one’s experience. Narrative sociology is part of the long tradition of thinking on reality through writing.