To put up with politics. Economy and uses of political information
From an investigation conducted in a village population on a social time streched sequence (covering two municipal elections), this article proposes another way to make electoral sociology. The choosed observation method allows to question the different political interaction levels by refunding the multiple social links that they engage and put in game. The shapes and rhythms analysis of local political information exchanges shows how much the conceptualization of the electoral stakes in party takes root in the sociability structures and in the common work on the "memory" of the previous political episodes. However, beyond patterns shared with other similar contexts, this inquiry feeds more largely the voters' sociology and more particulary the matter of their statement about politics. Through the village sociability, all the technics of accommodation to a political event (the previous campaign, the campaign itself and the ballot) come to light. By this way, the politization of the social conflictuality, the resizing the political stakes, and the personalization of the electoral competition bend the rather abstract "political order" into a very concrete social issue. These ways of acting are part of the repertory of the ordinary tactics to put up with politics.