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Titre David Easton, ou les difficultés d'une certaine sociologie politique
Auteur Claude Polin
Mir@bel Revue Revue Française de Sociologie
Numéro Numéro spécial 1971 Analyse de systèmes en sciences sociales (II)
Page 183-193
Résumé anglais Claude Polin : David Easton or the difficulties of a specific trend of political sociology. Starting with a brief description of the main features of Easton's systematization of politics, the author shows how each of them represents, to a certain extent unconsciously, merely a contemporary version of old features of classical liberal thinking in politics (which poses its gradual vanishing), and therefore he questions the claimed universality of Easton's model. To that end, it is shown that Easton is unable to define what is specifically political in such key points as the content of a « political demand », or the working of the political system proper, and more radically that he cannot fit into his scheme such key notions as ideology, legitimacy, or power.
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