Introduction à la sociologie
Conférence de méthode, Sciences Po Paris
Mineure Amérique du Nord, 2025-2026


    Cours donné intégralement en anglais. Texte expliqués :


  • Cours 1 (What's sociology?) : BERGER Peter, 1963, “Sociology as an individual pastime”, Invitation to sociology: A humanistic perspective, New York, Anchor Books. Excerpt : p. 1-24.

  • Cours 2 (Integration and social regulation: Durkheim) : DURKHEIM Émile, 2005 [1897], Suicide. London & New York : Routledge. Excerpts : p. 97-110 ; p. 123-125 ; p. 146-154.

  • Cours 3 (Integration and social regulation: Goffman) : GOFFMAN Erving, 1967, Rituals of interaction. Excerpts : p. 1-3 (« Introduction ») ; p. 5-15 (« On Face Work ») ; p. 97-112 (« Embarasment and social organization »).

  • Cours 4 (Social class and inequalities: classical approaches) : MARX Karl, [1850], The Class Struggles in France, ElecBook, excerpts : p. 36-40 ; MARX Karl, 2009 [1852], The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, Dodo Press, excerpts : p. 29-36 ; p. 93-103.

  • Cours 5 (Social class and inequalities: contemporary approaches) : BOURDIEU Pierre, 1984, Distinction. A social critique of the judgement of taste, Harvard University Press. Excerpts : p. 114-135 ; p. 260-267.

  • Cours 6 (Race and migration) : ROTH Wendy D., 2010, “Racial mismatch: The divergence between form and function in data for monitoring racial discrimination of Hispanics”, Social Science Quarterly, 91(5), p. 1288-1311.

  • Cours 7 (Education) : CALARCO Jessica McCrory, 2011, “‘I need help!’ Social class and children’s help-seeking in elementary school”, American Sociological Review, 76 (6), p. 862-882.

  • Cours 8 (Space) : PRÉTECEILLE Edmond, 2009, “Has Ethno-Racial Segregation Increased in the Greater Paris Metropolitan Area?”, Revue française de sociologie, 50 (3), p. 489-519.

  • Cours 9 (Family and gender roles) : BESSIÈRE Céline, 2022, “Reversed accounting: Legal professionals, families and the gender wealth gap in France”, Socio-Economic Review, 20(1), p. 233-256.

  • Cours 10 (Religion) : MADSEN Richard, 2009, “The archipelago of faith: Religious individualism and faith community in America today”, American Journal of Sociology, 114 (5), p. 1263-1301.

  • Cours 11 (Economy and capitalism) : WEBER Max, 2001 [1905], The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Routledge Classics. Excerpts : p. 3-7 ; p. 13-20 ; p. 53-77.

  • Cours 12 (Work and organization) : CROZIER Michel and FRIEDBERG Erhard, 1980 [1977], “Chapter 2. Power as the Basis of Organized Action”, Actors and Systems: The politics of Collective Action, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, p. 30-44.