Intégrer l’émotion à l’analyse sociologique de l’action

Abstract

This article aims at introducing emotion into the scope of social facts sociology deals with. It is not a question to add a new class of phenomena to those already studied by sociology. The objective of the paper is to combine action analysis with emotion analysis and to show that emotion is a crucial parameter of sociological explanation. The analysis of emotions is made from a « cognitive sociology of action » point of view : we try to retrace the cognitive skills of actors in order to explain achievement and effects of social action. Exploring some aspects of the interactions between emotions and cognitions offers a way to explain how individuals concretely act in social life.

Keywords

• action
• affect
• body
• cognitions
• coordination
• norms