« Le monde est un monde d’événements »

Jouvenet, Morgan; Ollion, Étienne; Accominotti, Fabien; Drouet, Isabelle; Hauchecorne, Mathieu; Hobeika, Alexandre; Roueff, Olivier; Dalis, Sacha; Martin, Sarah; Abbott, Andrew

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“…The Eastern Bloc had undoubtedly experienced moments of fragility before 1989, but "no one had figured it out and turned the key in the lock." 145 Abbott's insistence on contingency is a reminder of the diversity and unpredictability of lineages, whose interlacings shape the structures (traditions and entities) of the social world. It is however possible to identify sequences, a posteriori, in which the openness of future scenarios is clear (including for the actors themselves).…”

Section: The Role Of Contingency and The Place Of The Individualmentioning

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Contexts and Temporalities in Andrew Abbott's Processual Sociology

Jouvenet

2016

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales

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Since the 1970s, Andrew Abbott has promoted an original and ambitious project for the social sciences. In particular, he has argued for the development of a “processual sociology” based on precepts first articulated by the Chicago tradition of sociology and in his view somewhat forgotten. Against functionalism, against the “variables paradigm,” he has emphasized the Chicago tradition's focus on patterns of interaction and their contexts, and has deepened our analysis of the local and ever-particular dimensions of social entities by considering their inscription in successive sequences. As well as seeking to formalize these sequences, this vision aims to link processes playing out at different rhythms and levels. As a project it is based on a conception of social life as a “world of events,” where “change is the normal nature of things” and “not something that happens occasionally to stable social actors.” This makes it possible to explain the emergence and durability of social entities (for example, professions and disciplines) in the flow of events. The originality of this approach consists in founding a new institutionalist analysis of social realities on this ontology of perpetual movement.Marked by American pragmatism but also traversed by the question of order and social structures, Abbott's oeuvre offers an original approach to the diversity of contexts and temporalities in processes that, through the intermingling of various “lineages,” constitute social traditions and entities. This article presents Abbott's contextualist theses and the intellectual background against which they emerged. It also considers the place that the processual approach accords to contingency and personhood, factors that enable Abbot to work toward a synthesis of history and sociology.

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Contexts and Temporalities in Andrew Abbott's Processual Sociology

Jouvenet

2016

Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales

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“…Another problem is that the question of the epistemological compatibility of the concepts of field and ecology is more or less ignored. Inscribed in an interactionist perspective that undermines the existence of an objective reality (Abbott and CoFSS, 2015), ecologies only tend to consider the heteronomous dynamics of more or less instituted entities (Abbott, 2003) and, by the same token, to neglect forms of socialization of which they are not the direct source. In this respect, it is hard to see how such a framework can coexist with the principles of field construction, for example, in terms of going beyond interactions, perimeters, and official categories to reconstruct the objective relations that apply to individuals and institutions, or to identify the impact of the dispositions brought into play by the protagonists of the space concerned through their socializing experiences.…”

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How to study the stability of interstitial spaces: an analysis based on the case of the visibility of French intellectuals

Attencourt

2024

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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This article reports on an investigation into the channels through which intellectuals have gained public recognition since the 1970s (quality press, intellectual journals, think tanks, conference venues, cultural radio and TV programs, publishing houses, etc.). Through the prism of field theory, we explored a space – that of the visibility of ideas – situated at the crossroads of several institutionally established fields (academic, intellectual, media, political, and economic). While the number of studies devoted to this type of interstitial space has multiplied since the 2000s, the focus has mainly been on their heteronomy through comparisons with autonomous fields. This approach tends to lose sight of the fact that they could neither emerge nor endure in the absence of stability. Based on the notion of the space of visibility of ideas, the present paper attempts to show that it is possible to apprehend the stability of these labile spaces by adopting an ethnographic approach, conducive to the articulation of micro/meso/macro levels and the mixing of methods. In so doing, we put forward the idea that interstitial spaces can ultimately be analyzed in terms of perimeters and capital, in other words, as fields.

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Contextes et temporalités dans la sociologie processuelle d’Andrew Abbott

Jouvenet

2016

Annales

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Résumé Depuis les années 1970, Andrew Abbott a construit une oeuvre originale et ambitieuse. Il a notamment prôné le développement d'une sociologie « processuelle » réactivant les principaux préceptes de la tradition sociologique de Chicago, quelque peu oubliés selon lui. Contre l'abstraction fonctionnaliste, contre le « paradigme des variables », il relève l'intérêt de cette tradition pour l'étude des schèmes d'interaction et de leurs contextes, et approfondit la réflexion sur leur caractère situé en s'intéressant à leur inscription dans des séquences dont on peut formaliser la succession. Il s'agit aussi d'articuler des processus se déroulant à des rythmes et des niveaux différents. Ce projet s'appuie sur l'identification de la texture du monde social à celle d'un « monde d'événements », dans lequel « le changement est la nature normale des choses » et non « quelque chose qui arrive occasionnellement à des acteurs sociaux stables ». L'enquête doit donc permettre d'expliquer l'émergence et la pérennité d'entités sociales (par exemple des professions ou des disciplines) dans ce flux d'événements. L'originalité consiste ainsi à fonder une conception institutionnaliste des réalités sociales sur une pensée du mouvement permanent. Marqué par la philosophie pragmatiste états-unienne, mais également taraudé par la question de l'ordre et des structures sociales, A. Abbott livre des propositions encore mal connues pour saisir la variété des contextes et temporalités des processus qui, en croisant divers « lignages » d'événements, constituent les traditions et entités sociales. Cet article présente ces propositions et l'environnement intellectuel dans lequel elles ont émergé. Il interroge aussi la place donnée à la contingence et à l'acteur individuel dans l'approche processuelle – qui permet, selon A. Abbott, d'oeuvrer à la synthèse de l'histoire et de la sociologie.

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« Le monde est un monde d’événements »

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Contexts and Temporalities in Andrew Abbott's Processual Sociology

Contexts and Temporalities in Andrew Abbott's Processual Sociology

How to study the stability of interstitial spaces: an analysis based on the case of the visibility of French intellectuals

Contextes et temporalités dans la sociologie processuelle d’Andrew Abbott

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