Mélanie Le Guen | 21.02.2020
The actors, tools, discourses, practices related to the field of self-development have thrived since the early twenties in the United States and in Europe, as a response to societies’ will to live better lives. Time, especially as far as the many possible temporalities are concerned, is one of the main themes of self-development. Thus, Kairos and Kronos materialize the idea that contemporary Western societies live in relation to two temporal regimes – one being chronological, and the other kairetical. [...]
Mélanie Le Guen | 29.11.2018
This article argues that hospitality, that should have come to an end according to many authors in the social sciences, has been a fruitful theme and guideline to their practices, especially since 2015. In the social sciences, hospitality appears through new practices of social scientists as well as through the topic’s regain of topicality. This thesis is based upon a state of the art and extracts the most relevant documents to approach the relations between science as a social [...]
Manouk Borzakian | 09.07.2014
Priority research topics tend to be decided outside of the scientific field, favouring the rise, within social sciences, of “abstract empiricism” (Wright Mills 2006), i.e. detailed researches that carefully avoid theorization or generalization — such as the work consultant firms do. A possible justification of this tendency is the objectivity that is allegedly expected from the researcher. A second argument relies on a simplistic view of the epistemological rupture and the confusion between intellectual rigour and reluctance to theorize. [...]
