Observer les mobilisations

Lilian Mathieu , Hélène Combes (1) , Choukri Hmed , Johanna Siméant , Isabelle Sommier

1 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]

What are researchers doing today when they study social movements ? How to stimulate the sociological imagination when we face a triple routinisation--of research objects, of interpretation patterns and of methodologies--in social science? We do not intend here to promote any kind of "methodologism" by proposing one method, nor a fortiori any "one best methodological way" to study mobilisations, without any regard to the knowledge aims that are specific to each research. We do not promote any methodological hardening nor the promotion of any standard empirical approach to study social movements. Our paper and the special issue rather recall to the principle of social science unity, the only way to open new questions without neglecting current research. Studying and analysing mobilisations is what researchers in with issue invite to, particularly by suggesting to have a better look at how mobilisations take place within time, space, and social order frameworks.

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Domaines: Sociologie

Lilian Mathieu, Hélène Combes, Choukri Hmed, Johanna Siméant, Isabelle Sommier. Observer les mobilisations : Retour sur les ficelles du métier de sociologue des mouvements sociaux. Politix, 2011, 93, pp.9-27. ⟨halshs-00609568⟩