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(Social) Life Is Relational

Authors: Lahire, Bernard;

(Social) Life Is Relational

Abstract

On parle souvent en sociologie, en se référant à Norbert Elias ou à Pierre Bourdieu, d’un « mode de pensée relationnel » ou d’une « sociologie relationnelle », en laissant penser que le caractère relationnel serait une stratégie scientifique parmi d’autres, certes féconde, mais conçue dans une perspective nominaliste comme un pur point de vue sur le réel ou comme une méthode. L’extension du cadre d’observation à l’ensemble du vivant (et l’on pourrait dire à l’ensemble du réel, si l’on considère que le réel physique est tout aussi relationnel) montre que l’interdépendance est un fait universel de nature et que si la « pensée relationnelle » est une stratégie scientifique « payante » ou heuristique, c’est parce que, comme le dit à l’occasion Bourdieu dans une veine clairement réaliste, « le réel est relationnel ». Le fait que les sciences de la matière comme de la vie n’ont cessé de mettre en évidence le caractère relationnel du réel, conduit à penser qu’il n’y a de science en général, et de science sociale en particulier, que relationnelle, et que cela ne devrait pas constituer une option parmi d’autres possibles, mais un postulat de base de toute recherche.

We often speak in sociology, referring to Norbert Elias or Pierre Bourdieu, of a « relational mode of thought » or of a « relational sociology », suggesting that the relational character would be a scientific strategy among others, certainly fruitful, but conceived in a nominalist perspective as a pure point of view on the real or as a method. The extension of the framework of observation to the whole of the living world (and one could say to the whole of reality, if one considers that the physical real is also relational) shows that interdependence is a universal fact of nature and that if « relational thinking » is a « profitable » or heuristic scientific strategy, it is because, as Bourdieu says on occasion in a clearly realist vein, « the real is relational ». The fact that the sciences of matter as well as of life have never ceased to highlight the relational character of reality, leads us to think that there is no science in general, and no social science in particular, that is not relational, and that this should not constitute an option among other possible options, but a basic postulate of all research.

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[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio], [SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, [SHS.SOCIO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]

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