La méthode de l'intervention sociologique

Abstract

Résumé La méthode de l’intervention sociologique, élaborée et mise en œuvre par Alain Touraine, est à l’origine d’enquêtes et d’ouvrages importants en sociologie. Toutefois, elle est restée dans l’ombre et demeure utilisée par un cercle plutôt étroit de chercheurs. Cet article lie donc deux aspects : il rappelle les grands principes de la méthode, tout en précisant les évolutions qu’elle a connues en passant de la problématique du mouvement social à la compréhension des problèmes sociaux ; il interroge ensuite la singularité de la méthode au regard des différentes modalités d’entretiens collectifs. Il apparaît alors que, originale et exigeante, l’intervention sociologique est aussi par certains aspects proche d’autres méthodes réflexives de groupe.

The (in)securitization practices of the three universes of EU border control: Military/Navy – border guards/police – database analysts

“…The empirical observations on which this article is based were made during a series of meetings and interviews that took place between 2006 and 2013. 1 The first meetings involved professionals and academics and were conducted following the ‘sociological intervention’ method – an analytic procedure and approach that enables the actors themselves to access certain forms of conscientiousness – initially developed by Alain Touraine and Michel Wieviorka (see Cousin and Rui, 2011). In the first phase, several training course professionals agreed, on condition of anonymity for themselves and their interviewees, to share with the group of researchers some of their experiences and discourses relating to the practices in which our research group was interested.…”

Existential concerns and supports. An investigation into vulnerability

“…Following the analysis of the empirical material from the discussion groups and interviews, we proceeded to conduct 7 feedback groups (FGs) with people who had participated in the discussion groups and interviews. With these groups, inspired by the sociological intervention groups of Alain Touraine's school, the aim was to return the first results of the analysis to the groups being researched, as well as to exchange the views of actors and researchers in order to help in carrying out a final analysis as a result of the co-production of knowledge (Cousin & Rui, 2010;Wieviorka, 2008: 147-152). The feedback groups were conducted online due to the coronavirus pandemic.…”

From a Sociological Given Context to Changing Practice: Transforming Problematic Power Relations in Educational Organizations to Overcome Social Inequalities

“…Two main differences are worth mentioning here: (a) sociological intervention starts from a precise problem formalized by sociologists; whereas intervention in CHAT starts from a request made by professionals on the basis of concrete problems; (b) the objective of sociological intervention is to analyze the way in which individuals read and interpret the social world; whereas the objective of CHAT is to produce expansive learning to enable the development of activity systems. Finally, it should be pointed out that if, unlike CHAT, the theorizing of intervention has taken a back seat in Touraine's work (Herreros, 2009;Cousin and Rui, 2011). Touraine's methodological discourse suggests a sociology "in the middle of the ford" (Herreros, 2009, p. 57) between the production of academic knowledge and intervention.…”