| Summary: | Charles S. Peirce’s pragmatism provides sociology with conceptual resources to shed lights on such issues as interpretation, reality, identity and science. This article focuses on the articulation of the semiotic triangle with the concept of habit. This conjunction allows explaining the stabilization of interpretations, and avoiding the reduction of reality to a collection of facts. This approach is convergent with the contemporary sociology of the conventions of interpretation, and divergent from a Latourian conception of mediation. It considers (individual and collective) identity as a hierarchy of habits. Finally, this articulation can underpin a definition of science as the habit of revision of the habits.
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