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Face aux bouleversements qui affectent gravement la sociologie et menacent sa survie, l'auteur propose une intégration de ces renversements en les concevant comme autant de forces de décentration au regard des définition et méthode classiques de la discipline. Ces décentrations exigent toutes de prendre en compte des dépendances sous-estimées, voire méconnues, du social à l'égard de multiples laissé(e)s-pour compte que les « studies » ont notamment contribué à mettre sur le devant de la scène. Le mouvement de l'article suit une décentration affectant à la fois le sujet, agent ou acteur social qui ne peut plus servir de pivot, et les formes du commun et de communauté qui sont excentrées au regard des sociétés et collectifs. Loin de la société (1), le parcours conduit tout contre l'étrangeté (2) d'une extériorité désormais à intégrer dans l'appréhension de l'humain par ses dépendances (3). Être ensemble avec ce, celles et ceux auparavant minorés (4) requiert des déplacements dans la mise en commun appelée à se soucier davantage d'attachements dans le proche et à ouvrir en outre la cohabitation au-delà de l'humain, au prix de remaniements qui ne laissent pas indemne la normativité sous-jacente des sciences sociales. Des modes de gouvernement affranchissent de la cité (5) en passant, au-delà de l'économie de marché, par des choses qui soutiennent des alliages d'économie politique plus profonds que les alliances versatiles entre oligarques et autorités politiques.

No estudo das relações de outros e de si mesmo que pretende levar emconsideração a pessoa e não apenas a equivalência requerida pela demanda de justiça, quais são os pontos de convergência e divergência entre as concepções de Axel Honneth e Laurent Thévenot? A perspectiva sintética sobre o tema, a qual Paul Ricoeur oferta em seu livro Percursos do reconhecimento propõe ampliar um debate desses autores acrescido pela importante contribuição da filosofia que os precedeu nesse caminho.

No estudo das relações de outros e de si mesmo que pretende levar emconsideração a pessoa e não apenas a equivalência requerida pela demanda de justiça, quais são os pontos de convergência e divergência entre as concepções de Axel Honneth e Laurent Thévenot? A perspectiva sintética sobre o tema, a qual Paul Ricoeur oferta em seu livro Percursos do reconhecimento propõe ampliar um debate desses autores acrescido pela importante contribuição da filosofia que os precedeu nesse caminho.

This article compares a variety of modes of quantifying individuals to govern them. The analytical grid issues from a former research program on the Politics of Statistics that focused on one of these modes of governing by numbers, the statistical nation state, which is here included in an array of more recently developed governing numbers based on benchmarking, digital tracking, or self-quantifying. Three main operations differentiate modes of governing by numbers: measuring individuals for quantification, taking political measures accordingly to guide their behaviors, and an intermediate operation that is often less visible although situated between the two previous ones and needed to link them: evaluating the situation through a measured judgment that justifies the monitoring based on numbers. This analysis breaks down data into the sequential steps of the transformations chain of information formats needed to pass from an individual person to a governing figure. The plurality of modes of evaluation, and its reduction by quantification, is given high significance, as well as the way each mode of governing affects individuals, their identity and their possibility to critically reflect and question.

This article compares a variety of modes of quantifying individuals to govern them. The analytical grid issues from a former research program on the Politics of Statistics that focused on one of these modes of governing by numbers, the statistical nation state, which is here included in an array of more recently developed governing numbers based on benchmarking, digital tracking, or self-quantifying. Three main operations differentiate modes of governing by numbers: measuring individuals for quantification, taking political measures accordingly to guide their behaviors, and an intermediate operation that is often less visible although situated between the two previous ones and needed to link them: evaluating the situation through a measured judgment that justifies the monitoring based on numbers. This analysis breaks down data into the sequential steps of the transformations chain of information formats needed to pass from an individual person to a governing figure. The plurality of modes of evaluation, and its reduction by quantification, is given high significance, as well as the way each mode of governing affects individuals, their identity and their possibility to critically reflect and question.

Among the contributions to the presently growing sociology of quantification, a long-standing French tradition has built on an approach to the "politics of statistics" based on the formatting practices of the transformative chain that leads to data. It resulted from statistician-economists who, in the critical spirit of the 1960s, were reflexive and largely open to the social sciences, and cooperated with historians and sociologists. The article offers a 30 years' perspective on the avenue of research that began with the article "L'économie du codage social" which goes from labour designation and qualification to ways of making occupation worthy. It leads to the broader notion of "investments in forms" which produce equivalence and economies of coordination. While making available in English large extracts of the original paper, the author adds comments from today perspective on the development of this trend which has fuelled both On Justification (co-authored with Luc Boltanski) and convention theory more generally.

Among the contributions to the presently growing sociology of quantification, a long-standing French tradition has built on an approach to the "politics of statistics" based on the formatting practices of the transformative chain that leads to data. It resulted from statistician-economists who, in the critical spirit of the 1960s, were reflexive and largely open to the social sciences, and cooperated with historians and sociologists. The article offers a 30 years' perspective on the avenue of research that began with the article "L'économie du codage social" which goes from labour designation and qualification to ways of making occupation worthy. It leads to the broader notion of "investments in forms" which produce equivalence and economies of coordination. While making available in English large extracts of the original paper, the author adds comments from today perspective on the development of this trend which has fuelled both On Justification (co-authored with Luc Boltanski) and convention theory more generally. (author's abstract)

Abstract

Capital in the Twenty-First Century is based on the author's choices concerning the definition of capital, the inequalities of its distribution, and the social state policies he recommends to address them. In line with Thomas Piketty's proposal to encourage a dialogue between economics and the other social sciences, this article sheds light on the implications of those choices. It traces the political genealogy of "human" and "intellectual" capital, and the subsequent development of other capital-variables used to measure different types of inequality and to evaluate the policies designed to cope with them. Differentiating the modes—which are not exclusively market-orientated—of investing in and valorizing these various types of capital, it clarifies the kind of power associated with each, its claim to legitimacy despite the inequalities it causes, and the domination it exercises. This calls into question the delimitation that Piketty has chosen for a basic set of capital-goods that are used in very different ways, along with his understanding and evaluation of them according to market valuation alone.