Embarquements

Abstract

The issue of embeddedness of the social sciences and their on-going, evolving relationships with their fields is nothing new. However, it is time to update the issue, in light of recent controversies on the need to differentiate “public sociology” from other areas, on codes of ethics for the professions of anthropologist, sociologist and ethnologist, and more recently, on the conditions for “embedded sociology” (addressed in this issue). Is this the umpteenth trend in traditional self-questioning, intrinsic to the discipline, or is it a break with the old approach to socio-anthropologists’ involvement in their fields? The aim of this article is to try to answer this question, through a brief classification of existing forms of embeddedness.

Keywords

• embeddedness
• involvement
• sociology
• field
• break