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Return on a classic and filmic sociological research. Industrialisation of North Lorraine Region (France)

Retour sur une recherche de sociologie classique et de sociologie filmique : industrialisation d'une région de la Lorraine du nord.

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Today, we globally use “publication” for papers. However, this word comes from late latin and means “unveil, make public”. This question is directly linked to filmic sociology realization. Since Gutenberg, multiple print formats drastically changed diffusion and we can still read old books or, today, articles written years ago which are still accurate. It naturally worked for text but also for photos as first images in any format were unique. We are totally facing this question if we want to have corpuses of filmic sociology realization, have films academically considered as publications. Today we have Internet and gain more and more access to films every year, so our film can be largely accessible. However, let’s not forget that these films are very compressed and that we must keep good quality copies to archive them and keep them in the latest available format. Ferdinand Tönnies (Tönnies 1928) and, in France, Marcel Mauss (Mauss 1934), Pierre Naville (Naville 1966), pleaded for sociology films to be made. They were convinced that films could bring new knowledge to sociology. However, as no movement durably emerged, we have no global idea who made sociological films, when, where they are. Researchers as Sorokin (Sorokin 1956), Merton (Merton 1965) or Gans (Gans 1992) wrote about the non-cumulative dimension of sociology. Gans showed how for multiple reasons, sociologists mentioned in publications are either recent or theorists widely known. Gans writes “Today, as surely in the past as well, the amnesia hypothesis is regularly discussed, often in personal terms, whenever older sociologists meet, and tell each other that young colleagues are reporting findings they had reported in the past. Professional pride, and perhaps also the fear that they would be stigmatized for their age, has discouraged older sociologists from publicly voicing their dissatisfaction.” These last years filmic sociology has emerged as a specific approach of sociology. This has been made possible thanks to Joyce Sebag’s tireless efforts, first in France and then internationally thanks to the meeting with Genova University team and network who also made films. Our aim is to build a collective international movement of sociologists film makers. However, I am convinced that filmic sociology as an emerging sociological field must also take into consideration films which were made in the past in sociological research. Today, there are so many possibilities with digital techniques that it would be regrettable to reproduce sociological amnesia, go on discovering what has been largely known for years instead of amplifying filmic sociology possibilities.
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Christine Louveau de La Guigneraye. Return on a classic and filmic sociological research. Industrialisation of North Lorraine Region (France). European Sociological Association - 13th Conference - (Un)Making Europe: Capitalism, Solidarities, Subjectivities', European Sociological Association, Aug 2017, Athens, Greece. ⟨hal-03173522⟩
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