Action, movement, and intervention: Reflections on the sociology of Alain Touraine
1991; Wiley; Volume: 28; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Francês
10.1111/j.1755-618x.1991.tb00143.x
ISSN1755-618X
Autores Tópico(s)French Urban and Social Studies
ResumoCet article examine les déclarations qu'Alain Touraine fait pour sa sociologie de Taction. On argumente qu'alors que Touraine presente une critique puissante des assomptions des fonctionnels en sociologie, sa propre analyse de la société‘post‐industrielle’ ou ‘programmée’à des implications historiques et théologiques qui le raménent à une analyse des fonctionnels plus conventionnelle. Nous continuons ensuite à examiner les implications de cette tension centrale pour sa méthode ‘d'intervention sociologique’ et pour son analyse substantielle de la nature de ‘nouveaux mouvements sociaux. This paper examines the claims Alain Touraine makes for his sociology of action. It is argued that while Touraine presents a powerful critique of functionalist assumptions in sociology, his own analysis of the ‘post‐industrial’ or ‘programmed’ society has historicist and teleological implications which lead him back towards more conventional functionalist analysis. We examine the implications of this central tension for his method of ‘sociological intervention’ and for his substantive analysis of the nature of ‘new social movements.
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