Sociologies (Nov 2017)
Les tensions entre sociologie et politique à l’aune d’une tentative de législation des sites web sur les troubles alimentaires
Abstract
The “public” dimension of sociological research can be seen as a form of reporting broadly interpreted, at the crossroads of scientific, political and ethical dimensions, and involving plural commitments to multiple actors. This article proposes a reflection based on the concrete experience of a survey of online communities of persons living with eating disorders. It discusses the importance of an ethical approach able to guide sociologists, as they face often difficult trade-offs between the need to produce new knowledge and the dilemmas that arise from their being part of the very world which they study, and on which their findings can have an impact.
