- Thank you to Doug Harper for his help in making my ideas clearer and my English better!
- With the participation of Sophie Taponier, researcher at The Sorbonne Laboratory of Ethnology, editor at l'Harmattan publishing, and Head of Argonautes; Sophie Alami and Isabelle Garabuau, researchers at The Sorbonne Laboratory of Ethnology and at Argonautes (Argonautes, 94 Boulevard Barbès, 75018 Paris, France). In this text “I” means Dominique Desjeux; “we” means Argonautes, and sometimes sociologists in general. This paper is an adaptation of a my French paper: “Tiens bon le concept, j'enlève l'échelle. . . d'observation.”, Besançon, UTINAM Journal n°20, dec. 1996.
Scales of observation A micro‐sociological epistemology of social science practiceFootnote∗Thank you to Doug Harper for his help in making my ideas clearer and my English better!
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