Microsociology

One qualifies micro Sociologie the study of the elementary social connections. That relates to in particular the study of the structures, the internal relations and the forms of organizations of the social small groups (like the family, the Couple, the Pairs, a group of young people, Clochardisme, behaviors of the travellers of public transport).

Georg Simmel speaks about “phenomena " microscopiques" ”: the secrecy, the friendship, obedience, honesty, confidence,… It is in Soziologie (1908) that Georg Simmel tested an analysis, a classification and an interpretation of several forms of social relations, such as insulation, the contact, the superordination, subordination, the opposition, the persistence or the continuity of the social group, the social differentiation, and integration.

It is usually based on the observation rather than the statistics. Its theoretical source is the Phénoménologie. The microsociology includes the approaches known as of the Interactionnisme symbolic system and the Ethnométhodologie. There exist some studies according to the Constructivisme.

The ethnomethodology was developed by Harold Garfinkel (and enriched later by others) to be informed on the lifestyle of the people and to include/understand of their social world. This approach also provided an additional dimension between the studies of psychology and sociology. It concentrates more on the individual interaction and within the small groups, rather than on the social Groupe of big size.

According to the proper Driven words of Paul, the “microsociology” is not the village against the State, but a sociology which does not have yet coasts and statistics, a sociology of the proper names, “you” and “ego”, a sociology which is not yet geometrical and crystalline.

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Bibliography: theory and illustrations

  • Georges Gurvitch, “Microsociologie and sociometry”, international Books of sociology , vol. 3-4, 1947-1948 B

  • Paul Driven, Vietnam, sociology of a war , Threshold, Paris, 1952
  • Michel Callon, “Elements for a sociology of the translation. The domestication of scallops and the sailor-fishermen in bay of Saint-Brieuc”, the sociological Year , n° 36,1986, p. 170-208
  • Georg Simmel, “Sociology of the meal”, Companies , 37: 211-216. 1992
  • Georges Lapassade, the microsociologies , Paris, Anthropos, 1996
  • To take the futile one with serious, microsociology of ritual of the everyday life , Claude Javeau, Stag, Humanities, 121 pages, 1998
  • Norbert Elias, “the fork”, in the civilization of manners . Paris: Calmann-Levy, pp. 179-183. 2001 * Jean-Claude Kaufmann, Body of women, glances of men: sociology of the naked centres , Pocket Editions, Paris, 2001 - ISBN 2-26610-980-4
  • Claude Javeau, Breeches of Madonna , Editions Slope of approach, Soignies, 2001
  • Pierre Sansot, People of little , PUF, 1992. Rééd. 1994 and 2002
  • Shirley Laced, the work of the naked dancers: beyond the mark, a relation of commercial service , 2004

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