L'alerte comme forme de déviance: Les lanceurs d'alerte entre dénonciation et trahison

Abstract

This article proposes to apprehend whistleblowing like an asymmetrical situation giving place to competing definitions, where each involved part tries to impose its view-point and to legitimate at the same time the practices it imply and those which result from this. We study this phenomenon like a particular form of deviance to be more a matter for a sociology of betrayal and break-up affecting the social bond.