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The Craft of Sociology. Epistemologial Preliminaries

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With Le métier de sociologue. Préliminaires épistémologiques (translated intoEnglish under the title: The Craft of sociology. Epistemological preliminariesin 1991), Pierre Bourdieu, Jean-Claude Chamboredon and Jean-Claude Passeron providean epistemological introduction to contemporary sociology. First published in 1968 (second edition, 1972), this is an edited collection of texts in the history and philosophy of sciences, which relates to a class given by Bourdieu and his colleagues at the Ecole pratique des hautes études, butthe book firstaims to establish more soundly the scientific legitimacy of the discipline, by situating sociology within the continuum of the natural sciences, particularlyphysics and biology.The Craft of sociologyconstitutes an important moment in the struggles inside the French,but also the international, field of sociology. It serves as an epistemological critique of positivism (dominantin the 1960s), recalls the relevance of the novel conceptualisations of the ‘founding fathers’(Marx, Durkheim and Weber), and newlyinsists on their unity, as all sharea common habitus, a set of‘interiorized scientific principles’that are incorporated into research. The book mobilizes philosophical resources from two strands (the Anglo-saxon philosophy of language and the French history and philosophy of sciences), and these are used as instruments to establish and strengthen the scientific legitimacy of the discipline.
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hal-03179020 , version 1 (24-03-2021)

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Frédéric Lebaron. The Craft of Sociology. Epistemologial Preliminaries. Praktiske Grunde, 2017, 1-2, pp.7-16. ⟨hal-03179020⟩
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