Les Science studies : de la marginalité thématique à la refondation de la discipline

• Main Author: Dominique Vinck
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Association Internationale des Sociologues de Langue Française 2016-03-01
• Series: Sociologies
• Subjects: science studies; controversies; knowledge; contents; inscriptions; agency
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sociologies/5248

In this article, we highlight what gradually becomes converging topics and issues (analyzing of controversies, consideration for the content, the objects and the instruments of the action, integration of the issues related to the knowledge) and affects the problematics and approaches into other research fields and currents of thought in sociology. Significant shifts occurred which are potential carriers of profound effects if they would be picked up by other sociologists, which is not obvious due to the profounds debates emerging from theses studies. Thus, the Science Studies, which have long been an area relatively apart from sociology because of its objects of study, participate to the renewal of ways of thinking and working in the social sciences by opening questioning around the definition of the elements of society and the agency.