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Frederik Mispelblom Beyer, « D'une fiction centrale de la sociologie : le couple individu-société », L'Homme et la société, ID : 10.3406/homso.1995.3430
Frederik, Mispelblom, A Central Fiction in Sociology :The Individual-Society Duality The duality of individual and society is a fiction structuring sociological writing and discourse. It inspires the problematics specific to the discipline of sociology and affects its relations with the other social sciences. It forms one of the most important theoretical obstacles to a non-psychological, yet non-sociological reductionist understanding of the nature of subjectivity. In order to renew sociological theory it is important to understand the fundamental relationship between sociologists and their object of research. It is especially important, therefore, to question and go beyond the dualism of "individual and society".