Sociology and Deconstruction: Questions of Method

Abstract

The present article explores various links between sociological practice and deconstructive work as understood by Jacques Derrida. These links range from strict indifference to interpretative performance to open hostility. What reason(s) weigh on each of these intersections? If sociology can make use of deconstruction, as so many other disciplines have been doing in their respective fields of work without renouncing their specificity and relative autonomy, what does this use consist in? What then is the contribution of deconstructive thinking to sociological research? How to treat this contribution from a methodological point of view? To what extent is it possible to speak here of a "method"? What does a deconstruction of the sociological text mean and what is its scope? How to think, in theory and in practice, of a deconstruction of sociology?