Abstract
The aim of the present article is to shed light on the background of the analytical frame that has been developed by the author himself and his colleague L. Thévenot in De la justification. Les économies de la grandeur. It has been conceived as an instrument to be applied in the analysis of the critical operations (criticism and justification in situations of conflict) carried out by the actors in their everyday lives. Yet the position of the sociologist and therefore of his work is challenged at the same time. The critical actor and the “classical” sociologist that pretend to have access to a more genuine reality than ordinary people have and that thus assume a critical position, appear to be much closer to each other than it is usually believed. In order to make the analysis of the critical operations possible, this position of the “classical” sociologist must be abandoned. This is how our critical societies, in which actors are endowed with critical resources and use them quasi-permanently, can be grasped as an object of sociological analysis. The author then examines the conditions of possibility of such a sociology of criticism and the sociologist’s new position he is conducted hereafter to occupy.Since 2019, TEORIE VĚDY / THEORY OF SCIENCE journal provides open access to its content under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
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