Social organizations are faced with rapid economic, technological and demographic transformations, but are not always able to respond adequately. In addition, environmental issues are becoming more pressing by the year. These transformations are having an impact in virtually every field: housing, health, food, work, etc., and require political responses. In its search for solutions and directions, sociology is frequently called to the rescue.
It receives requests from just about every social actor, but is it even in a position to respond? And even when it does, listening to decision-makers is subject to the whims of the reactive and volatile movements of a population connected in real time; connected to who or what becomes a power issue. No matter how good the arguments of science, its conclusions will be challenged by a thundering fringe that has no use for reflection or objective data, all the less so as sociology calls itself into question with divergent theories, in search of a coherence that is difficult to establish in such confused times.
What sociology needs to find quickly concerns it directly: its ability to bring social concerns to the fore. This edition offers several interesting perspectives on current sociology.
Denys Lamontagne - [email protected]
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