The return of society

François Dubet (1)

1 CED - Centre Émile Durkheim

This article is a plea for the idea of society in sociological theory. Even though the industrial national societies no longer exist, the successive crises that we have encountered show that we need a general concept to account for social life. Thus sociology should be enabled to remain a moral and political philosophy.

Keywords: critique; institutions; social integration; society; sociological theory

Domains: Sociology

François Dubet. The return of society. European Journal of Social Theory, 2021, 24 (1), pp.3-21. ⟨10.1177/1368431020950541⟩. ⟨halshs-02971009⟩