À quoi sert l'utilité ?

"Demander à la sociologie de servir à quelque chose, c'est toujours une manière de lui demander de servir le pouvoir. Alors que sa fonction scientifique est de comprendre le monde social, à commencer par les pouvoirs."
B. Lahire, À quoi sert la sociologie ?, 2002

A great hypocrisy

Monique Pinçon-Charlot, specialist on the bourgeoisie, denounces rich people who want to be taxed in order to absorve the public déficit. Considering it a demagogic mesure, the french sociologist proposes instead that the great fortunes should (finally) pay their taxes and end with tax optimisation: "There should be an effective fiscal progressive reform in which all work and capital revenues would be taken to its source, and, therefore, avoid niche evasion.read more

The Plural Actor

Bernard Lahire’s book, « The Plural Actor », has recently been translated by Polity Press. It is a major contribution of the french sociologist to the the social action theory, starting from the critics of Pierre Bourdieu’s « habitus » field theory. Polity Press

Quotation

"The role of the intelectual is to create a discussion on issues that no one wants to talk about." Bernard Lahire

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