Indisciplines sociologiques

Presentation

Sociology is a discipline that engages with the public sphere. Many sociologists have embraced Durkheim’s maxim that sociology would not be ‘worth a moment’s trouble’ if it served only a purely academic purpose. These interventions have taken and continue to take a wide variety of forms: regular columns in the press, opinion pieces, petitions, books written for the general public, appearances on television and radio programmes, the drafting of reports, and so on…

There are numerous reflections on this ‘public sociology’, whether they concern the "engagement" of sociologists or the ‘usefulness’ of sociology. But they very often take as their starting point the unquestioned assumption that sociological discourse is driven by sociologists themselves.
Yet the public significance of sociology may well have something to do with the work of people who are not merely intermediaries between the great thinker and the general public.

The conference will bring together novelists, artists, essayists and journalists. ... who draw on sociological works and theories without being sociologists themselves. The aim is to explore the uses of sociology ‘beyond the walls’, or sociological indiscipline (in the dual sense of heterodox applications and a departure from disciplinary frameworks). The voices of those who make use of sociology will be at the heart of the conference.

Program

9.30am-Welcome coffee and Opening of the conference
10am-12am - Morning : De l’influence sociologique
Interventions of Maïa Mazaurette, Rose Lamy and Kohndo
12.30pm-1.30pm : Lunch at the Paris IAS for the speakers
1.30pm-Coffee break 
2pm-4.30pm- Afternoon :
Le nouveau roman sociologique ? interventions de Martial Cavatz et Camille Bordenet
Mise en scène sociologique, interventions d’Aurélien Peyre et Stéphanie Lemoine

Organisers

Baptiste Coulmont, Professor of Sociology, ENS Paris-Saclay
Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy, Research Fellow, Injep
Camille Peugny, Professor of Sociology, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin
Frédéric Lebaron, Professor of Sociology, ENS Paris-Saclay
Christophe Grange, Senior Lecturer in History, Université de Versailles-Saint
Quentin
Alizee Delpierre, Research Fellow, CNRS
Christine Detrez, Professor of Sociology, ENS Lyon

With the support of the Paris IAS.

Institutions involved in funding and organisation

ENS Paris-Saclay, Université de Versailles Saint Quentin, laboratoires CNRS : ISP, IDHES et Printemps, MSH Paris-Saclay

Modalités de participation 

Open to the public. Free registration but required: https://urlr.me/aQV3xb