Sociologies (Oct 2019)
Une approche transversale comme outil de comparaison internationale : l’exemple de l’harmonisation de la lutte antidopage dans le sport
Abstract
By analyzing the process of global harmonization of anti-doping regulations, this article provides answers to three major questions for the international comparison from a sociological point of view: What are the elements around which harmonization is built? How can the researcher study particularisms and localisms to feed the methodology of international comparison? How to grasp the transformations at work in this global process of harmonization? The progression in the framework of a pragmatic sociology of transformations makes it possible to explain the use of some key conceptual tools, to adopt a transversal approach of the international comparison which breaks with the national and disciplinary dimensions.
