Sociologie et interdisciplinarité, un mariage de raison?

Abstract

This paper addresses the interdisciplinarity that sociology necessarily entails owing to the subject matter, namely, social life in all its dimensions. Based on Georg Simmel's thinking on this matter, the author seeks to show that interdisciplinarity as it relates to sociology stems from the practitioners' dissection of social life in order to identify the object of their discipline. In this paper, Pierre Bourdieu's theory of practice illustrates the perspective that authenticates sociological interdisciplinarity without attempting to exclude all other disciplines that contemplate various dimensions of social life, or « social matter » (Simmel).