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This chapter retraces and analyses the evolution of the relationship between researcher and research object in French sociology from its academic and institutional origins until the present day. Our story, as do the majority of histories of French sociology, begins with Durkheim and his quest for an objective methodology. Over time, this approach weakens and is challenged by new ideas and empirical methods, inspired, for many, by American sociology or by French sociologists returning to France after the Second World War. Rather that considering the researcher as divorced from the social situation she or he is studying, these new approaches encourage them to consider the effects of their person on the situation observed and on the manner in which they interpret it.

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From Objective Methodology to Situated Research: The Changing Place of the Researcher in French Sociology

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    2026年

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  • Pauline Launay,
  • Cherry Schrecker

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This chapter retraces and analyses the evolution of the relationship between researcher and research object in French sociology from its academic and institutional origins until the present day. Our story, as do the majority of histories of French sociology, begins with Durkheim and his quest for an objective methodology. Over time, this approach weakens and is challenged by new ideas and empirical methods, inspired, for many, by American sociology or by French sociologists returning to France after the Second World War. Rather that considering the researcher as divorced from the social situation she or he is studying, these new approaches encourage them to consider the effects of their person on the situation observed and on the manner in which they interpret it.