Explication sociologique et domination sociale

Abstract

The domination is a central concept of the sociological analysis. To such a point that a sociology of the domination made the key word of its explanations. This article redraws the meanings that was able to receive this notion in the history of the thought and in the contemporary sociology. It brings out the theoretical difficulties which meets a sociology of the domination which registers this concept as tools and as the end of the approach and commits the sociologist to clarify a little better the explanatory status which he recognizes by this word.

Keywords

• epistemology
• sociology of the domination
• history of ideas