Abstract
On the Methodological Evolution of Pierre Bourdieu and the Development of Qualitative Methodology in Sociology. This article concerns the “provoked and accompanied au to-analysis” presented by Pierre Bourdieu in La Misère du Monde. This latter work constitutes a true methodological experience defining, in a new manner, the epistemological break, the status attributed to common sense knowledge, the representativity and the singularity of sociology, as well as the construction of explanations as found in sociological literature. The criticism inspired by this method opens up a debate on qualitative methodology in sociology. Qualitative Methodology. La Misère du Monde, Common Sense Knowledge. Sociological Explanation.
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