Cyril Lemieux, sociologue à l’EHESS, dirige le Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’études sur les réflexivités (LIER). Il est l’auteur de nombreux travaux sur les médias et le journalisme (Mauvaise presse, 2000 ; La Subjectivité journalistique, 2010), ainsi que sur la théorie de l’action et sur les rapports entre sciences sociales et politique (Le Devoir et la grâce, 2009 ; Socialisme et sociologie, avec B. Karsenti, 2017).
Pragmatic sociology came into being over thirty years ago at the meeting of American interactionism and French sociological tradition.
The author sets out the founding principles of this “new” sociology and sheds light on how the ideas shaped by this research movement provided new insight into how we see action and society by first defining them as conflicting realities. He also points out the new directions in which this sociology is going.
Cyril Lemieux is a sociologist at the EHESS (School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) and is head of the Laboratoire interdisciplinaire d’études sur les réflexivités (The interdisciplinary laboratory for the study of reflexivity) (LIER). He is the author of numerous works on the media and journalism: Mauvaise presse, (Bad press) Métailié, 2000; La Subjectivité journalistique (Journalistic subjectivity), EHESS, 2010, and on action theory and the relationship between social sciences and politics: Le Devoir et la grâce, Economica, 2009; Socialisme et sociologie (Socialism and sociology), with Bruno Karsenti, EHESS, 2017.