Sociologies (Jun 2014)
Restitution et épistémologie
Abstract
This contribution addresses the linkages between the epistemological positions to which researchers relate and the conceptions of the restitution they implement. The author describes the diversity of positions by linking them to two different acceptations of the opposition monism/dualism, which traverse the field of social sciences. The first falls within the confrontation between experimental and interpretative reason; the second focuses on the relationship between what is to be known and who operates the activity of knowledge. The author relies on the different contributions proposed in the Folder to resolve the objections, on one hand, from the explain-understand dispute, and on the other hand, from the contrasted ways of looking at the relationship between the object and the epistemic subject. She then proposes a ternary and interactionist epistemology that allows for the rethinking of the foundations and practices of the restitutive activity.
