La composition biographique. Quels effets des choix conceptuels pour saisir les temporalités ?
This article seeks to shed light on the debate regarding the multiplicity of biographical approaches in the social sciences, in basing itself on recent historical research work and publications. It shows how each theoretical approach is implicitly or explicitly associated with a precise concept (fou...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université Catholique de Louvain
2018-11-01
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| Series: | Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/2963 |
| Summary: | This article seeks to shed light on the debate regarding the multiplicity of biographical approaches in the social sciences, in basing itself on recent historical research work and publications. It shows how each theoretical approach is implicitly or explicitly associated with a precise concept (four concepts are adopted: life course as biographical institution, life course as life story, career, trajectory in the sense of social or structuralist trajectory). It also treats the uses of biographical analysis with a broadened approach to temporalities. The conceptual perspective adopted by each research work thus adopts a relationship to a particular time, as much from the synchronic and diachronic points of view as from that of historicity. If the analysis of synchronic and diachronic temporalities are a required point of passage for the great majority of biographical approaches in sociology, this article is particularly insistent on a third dimension, often underlying but seldom thought through or clarified - that of the regimes of historicity. The article has three parts. The first proposes a typology of conceptualisations of biographical approaches in sociology around four concepts. The second deals with how each approach (combining concept and ports of entry (macro, meso, micro) deals with the synchronic and diachronic analysis of biographies. Finally, the third part investigates the question of historicity. |
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| ISSN: | 1782-1592 2033-7485 |