| Titre | Réflexions théoriques et méthodologiques à propos de l'ethnoscience | |
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| Auteur | Marcel Fournier | |
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Revue | Revue Française de Sociologie |
| Numéro | 1971, 12-4 | |
| Page | 459-482 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Marcel Fournier : Theoretical and methodological considerations concerning ethnoscience.
This article is an abstract both didactic and critical about ethnoscience, which is a new approach to cultural phenomena and whose main purpose is to better the quality of ethnographic description and analysis by means of linguistic techniques. In spite of some weakness, for example the attribution of too much autonomy to cultural or symbolic systems from the social relations systems in which the former develop, ethnoscience remains nevertheless an important « conquest » and deserves the interest of every social scientist; and that for many reasons, particularly since: 1) among the studies of societies, even of contemporary ones, there are few systematic studies of the cognitive organization of experience; 2) it may be fulfilling to apply ethnoscience to the sociology of knowledge and culture which has but little progressed for a few years since ethnoscience can define the field of study more accurately and can provide elaborated techniques; 3) eliciting process brings out the traditional problem of the relationship between observed/ observer and solves it accordingly. It enables us to formalize an « Habitus » that sociologists, among others, are still trying to acquire often through a false and superficial non-directivity. However ethnographers will have to solve the theoretical problems underlying this practice in order to nurture the hopes set on ethnoscience: 1) the universality of the set, Question/Answer; 2) the universality of ways of classification such as taxinomy; 3) the relative autonomy of cultural systems. In other words they will have to explicit their theory of ethnographic knowledge and formulate a theory of social system. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rfsoc_0035-2969_1971_num_12_4_2012 |
