L’acceptabilité sociale au bout de la transgression

Abstract

Adding to project management a goal of social acceptability for human groups experiencing or demonstrating more or less deep reticence as to its outcome reflects a phenomenon of rationalization of a social considered both as language and technique. I illustrate this phenomenon through two researches. One concerns the understanding of the reasons that pushes a population to reject the implementation of a marine technical installation in order to preserve an environment in its current state and to avoid health risks. The other involved the production of a "societal analysis" among a local population and the reception of its results by a consortium whose ambition was to build and operate a ship using a hydrogen fuel cell. Finally, we will examine M. Callon's presentation of a sociology of translation and the role that its methods could play in building a participatory project that makes social acceptability not a means to politically secure a project, but an end, that of the rationalization of the social that it mobilizes.

Keywords

• phenomenology
• social acceptability
• hydrogen
• bureaucracy
• calculating thinking
• meditative thinking