| Summary: | The sociological representation of social problems as a mosaic of non-conformist, at risk, dangerous or endangered groups of persons, leaves little room for the analysis of societal and transversal transformations when it comes to thinking what “causes problems" today. In addition, it conveys the perception that some "defavorizations", differences and behaviors are the prerogative of certain classes or groups of persons, and that, consecutively, psychology, psychiatry, psychoeducation, social work or clinical criminology disciplines are the naturally designated disciplines to understand, manage and resolve social problems. Questioning this "populational", substantialized, psychologizing, and sometimes downright folkloric view, reopens the debate on links between ordinary sociality and social problems that needs to be, in our sense, actualized. This text aims to take part in this debate by proposing some general avenues for rethinking social problems according to recent societal transformations.
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