La « Socio-Anthropologie » : Champ,paradigme ou discipline ? Regards particuliers sur les entretiens de longue durée ou d'observation

Abstract

"Social Anthropology" — Field, Paradigm or Discipline? Particular views about prolonged or observational interviews: This article attempts to describe the methodological aspects of what is called « socio-anthropological » research. It describes the process of "rapprochement" between observation and interviewing in certain research protocols in the context of contemporary societies, particularly in the case of in-depth interviews : interviews over a long period of time with the same person. Comparing the diachronic and synchronic approches of these studies with extended interviews, as presented in several récents books, we can say that the distinction betwen qualitative sociology and anthropology in modern research fields loses its relevance. The conséquence of this sociological and anthropological overlap is the création of a new field of human sciences, and perhaps a new paradigm or discipline.