Compte-rendu de l'ouvrage Identity, Place, Knowledge, Social Movements Contesting Globalization
Résumé
Sociological theory has many faces. The overviewof current books which are classified as
theoretical allows us to distinguish two major types of theorizing. Some authors treat
theory as the explanation of observed events and phenomena, attained by discovering
general and universal mechanisms of social life represented by social laws. They answer
‘why questions’. This is a rigid idea of a theory, patterned on the practice of some of the
‘hard’ natural sciences. But it is not the dominant approach (...).