Four broad perspectives can be adopted to analyze and understand the social phenomena arising from the actors’ interactions: the economic perspective that is based on the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services; the sociological perspective that deals with the scientiﬁc analysis of human social data; the political perspective based on the organization and exercise of power in society; and the cultural perspective that recognizes that representations and values are basic to social organization and relations between individuals.
des biens et services; la perspective sociologique, qui porte sur l’analyse scientiﬁque des données sociales humaines; la perspective politique, qui est centrée sur l’organisation et l’exercice du pouvoir dans la société; la perspective culturelle, qui reconnaît que les représentations et les valeurs sont à la base de l’organisation sociale et des relations entre les individus.