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Francis Chateauraynaud
Researcher in sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - a public research institution for graduate studies in social sciences – where he manages the Group for Pragmatic and Reflexive Sociology (GSPR).
Francis Chateauraynaud explores multiple ways of research starting from pragmatic sociology. This opening appears well from the multiplicity of labels he gave to his orientation, called in turn
an "analytical sociology of disputes" (1990-1993),
a "sociology of perception » or « sociology of holds” (1994-1998),
a "pragmatic sociology of transformations" (1999-2002),
and, in the most recent time period, a "pragmatic of complexity", called also « socio-informatics of complex affairs » (2003-2004) !
In order to make theoretical frames, analytic tools and empirical investigations working together, this trajectory produced a series of investigations marked by continuous displacements which run up against academic classifications somewhat. The style of construction he provides carries him to refuse the hyperspecialization who, according to him, locks up the researcher on readymade territories, which are quickly autoreferent.
To synthesize all that, one can say that, these last years, Francis Chateauraynaud had sought to integrate an understanding approach, who consists in following the actors, and a configurational approach, able to apprehend social processes in a more global way. Breaking with symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology on which are grounded the most part of pragmatic schools, this orientation connects the analysis of situated action and judgement with processes of transformation apprehended over the long duration. To achieve this goal, Chateauraynaud insists on the necessity of models and tools directed towards the analysis of controversies, affairs and crisis crossed by contemporary societies. Data-processing work occupies a significant place in this research, making even more difficult its academic labelling. However, taken in a chronological order, the multiple books and articles show that it is not a simple search of originality or singularity, but a true process of investigation, with the meaning given to this term by John Dewey, one of the fathers founders of pragmatism.
President and founder member of Doxa (non-profit association), Francis Chateauraynaud is joint author, with Jean-Pierre Charriau, of the softwares Prospéro, Marlowe et Tirésias.
In the series of Chateauraynaud ‘s publications, one retains before the essential pieces formed by the four published books - whose attentive reader will discover that they are (almost too) perfectly connected:
e-mail : chateau@msh-paris.fr >
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