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Articles by Baptiste Brossard
Sociological Quarterly, 2020
The sociological study of intellectual recognition has tended to focus on highly cited and highly... more The sociological study of intellectual recognition has tended to focus on highly cited and highly acclaimed authors and perspectives, while reserving some interest for those who are “forgotten.” We know much less about the liminal cases: authors who are in-between fame and oblivion. This paper proposes a way to study intellectual recognition, by examining the liminal case of sociologist Charles H. Cooley. Based on a multilayered (quantitative and qualitative) citation analysis of Cooley’s classic work, Human Nature and the Social Order (HNSO), we study the role of intellectual deference in accounting for this liminality. Specifically, we identify two distinct deference processes: acknowledgment and involvement. We argue that Cooley has survived intellectual oblivion by standing on the shoulders of citers, as he has received substantial acknowledgment but decreasing involvement. In the conclusion, we discuss the implications of our paper for the understanding of the making of sociological theory.
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Social Sciences and Medicine, 2019
Why do some mental illnesses emerge in certain times and places and later disappear? Because it i... more Why do some mental illnesses emerge in certain times and places and later disappear? Because it integrates a wide array of social processes and relies on a strong epistemological position, Hacking's theory of ecological niches constitutes the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to answer this question. However, this theory lacks a convincing definition of its research object ("transient mental illnesses"), a conceptualization of how individuals would "fall ill" as well as a solid methodological framework to form case studies. This article addresses these issues in order to propose an extended theory of ecological niches.
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Utopia Studies, 2019
Why, in a given society, at a given point of its history, do some individuals design idealized fo... more Why, in a given society, at a given point of its history, do some individuals design idealized forms of social organization? While utopian studies have focused on analyzing the content of utopias, addressing definitional issues, or understanding the role of utopias in social change, this article proposes to examine the very production of utopias. This production is conceptualized as the "intersection" between the social trajectory of a utopia producer and the social context in which this production takes place. It compares nineteen in-depth case studies of classical and contemporary utopian texts in order to formulate five areas of investigation: (1) the political trajectory of the utopia producer, (2) the cultural and social capital of the producer, (3) "class distance" expressed through the utopian content, (4) the operations through which the utopian content is generated, and (5) the concepts of "utopian niches" and "utopian chains." It is argued that this account can provide a sociological model to understand utopia production and the rise of dystopia production over the course of the twentieth century.
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Sociological Focus, 2019
This article advocates a certain interpretation of grounded theory for the analysis of interviews... more This article advocates a certain interpretation of grounded theory for the
analysis of interviews with people diagnosed with dementia. Distinguishing
itself from the methodological approaches that, closer to thematic analysis,
consider the discourses of the participants as “pure symptoms” or “pure
meanings,” this interpretation consists in interpreting the content of the
interviews jointly with their enunciation situation and the social trajectories
of the participants. It then allows for extending the space of interpreting
possibilities, an endeavor especially crucial in research among discredited
populations.
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Sociology of Health and Illness, 2017
Contemporary research into health treats diagnosis as a central step in illness management and tr... more Contemporary research into health treats diagnosis as a central step in illness management and trajectories. Most public health policies, especially in the case of Alzheimer’s disease, claim that the earlier a diagnosis is made, the better it is for patients and caregivers. Quantitative and qualitative analysis from our longitudinal interview study, conducted with 60 caregivers of persons diagnosed with dementia, shows that this usual model of diagnosis [symptoms → diagnosis → meaning and caregiving] should be nuanced. First, diagnosis does not follow increased symptoms, but occurs rather through a process involving the observability of patients’ troubles and their interpretation of said troubles as requiring medical assistance ‐the ‘trouble?observability?interpretation convergence.’ Second, diagnosis does not systematically trigger the mobilisation of a caregiving network: such mobilisation may follow the diagnosis, but it can also provoke it, temporarily prevent it, or have no immediate impact. These observations beg the question: To what extent does diagnosis matter? We conclude by questioning the centrality of diagnosis in the illness trajectories and its crucial role in the mobilisation of a caregiving network, that is often taken for granted, and propose to distinguish between ‘anticipation diagnosis’ and ‘emergency diagnosis’.
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2016
How do residents' previous social positions influence the ways in which they deal with social lif... more How do residents' previous social positions influence the ways in which they deal with social life in nursing home? Based on observations and interviews in a private nursing home in France, this article describes daily life in the facility, the disability-based distinctions observed among residents, the strategies they use to " find their place, " and the references they make about their former social position in collective encounters. It shows that sociability in nursing homes is structured by the intertwining of " levels of disability " among residents, the social composition of the institution and its local surroundings, and the relative value attributed to each type of capital (in the sense of Bourdieu) in this context. The author proposes some assumptions that aim to generalize these specific findings.
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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2017
Based on the observation of around seventy memory consultations, this article provides an analysi... more Based on the observation of around seventy memory consultations, this article provides an analysis of cognitive assessment in the elderly in a Goffmanian perspective. During these interactions, patients run the risk of losing their credibility, given that what they say is both solicited by the geriatrician in order to spot potential daily difficulties and examined as potential signs of dementia. After having described how observed consultations work, the author presents the main strategies that patients seem to develop when doctors place their credibility in doubt and concludes with some reflections about interpretive issues regarding the elderly patients’ behavior during medical assessment.
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Symbolic Interaction, 2014
This article proposes an interactionist approach to self-injury behavior in youth. Mostly based o... more This article proposes an interactionist approach to self-injury behavior in youth. Mostly based on in-depth interviews with seventy people who self-harm or who have self-harmed at some point in their lives, it describes the process of daily self-injuring. It shows that this practice consists less in the self-harm in itself than in a liminal emotional state, composed of several successive steps, and that self-injury makes sense because concerned individuals subjectively see it as the most practical of known activities for releasing emotional troubles, then maintaining the interaction order surrounding them.
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Sociologie, 2013
Cet article propose une approche interactionniste des consultations mémoire – consultations spéci... more Cet article propose une approche interactionniste des consultations mémoire – consultations spécialisées dans l’évaluation cognitive des personnes âgées – axée sur la négociation de la « crédibilité » des patients. Il se focalise sur les stratégies adoptées par les patients lorsque leur crédibilité est mise en doute par le médecin. En prenant acte des variations de genre et de classe sociale, l’auteur conclut que les moyens utilisés par les personnes âgées pour rester crédibles contribuent souvent à les discréditer, et que le maintien d’une crédibilité est « structurellement improbable » car il dépend de paramètres (connaissances médicales, attentes sociales vis-à-vis des personnes âgées) qui dépassent le cadre de l’interaction.
This article proposes an interactionist approach to memory consultations-in which elderly patients’ cognitive performance is evaluated-through the negotiation of patient’s "credibility." It focuses on strategies used by patients when doctors question their credibility. Taking into account gender and class differences, the author concludes that the means used by the elderly to maintain credibility often result in a loss of credibility, and that maintaining credibility is "structurally unlikely" because it depends on parameters (medical knowledge, social expectations placed on the elderly) that go beyond the scope of the interaction.
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Sociologie du Travail, 2013
Cet article propose une approche sociologique du soin psychiatrique. Il se fonde sur un travail d... more Cet article propose une approche sociologique du soin psychiatrique. Il se fonde sur un travail de terrain mené dans un hôpital de jour à destination des adolescents, au cours duquel ont été effectués des observations et des entretiens avec des patients. L’auteur soutient que la motivation thérapeutique de la vie hospitalière peut être intégrée à la sociologie du travail psychiatrique. Pour ce faire, l’auteur décrit les interactions les interactions au sein de l’hôpital au prisme de l’incertitude inhérente à la notion de soin, et de ses conséquences sur l’identité des acteurs (soignants et soignés). Le « drame social du travail » qui en découle est alors compris comme une condition de réalisation du soin dans sa dimension émotionnelle.
Based on fieldwork conducted in a teenage day clinic where the author carried out observations and interviews with patients, this paper takes a sociological approach to psychiatric care. We argue that the therapeutic dimensions of daily life in a hospital can be included in the sociology of psychiatric work. To this end, we describe interactions that take place in the hospital through the prism of uncertainty — an inherent part of care — and how it impacts the identity of the actors involved (care givers and patients). The “social drama of work” that stems from this configuration can then be understood as a condition of care-giving on its emotional side.
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Terrains/Théories, 2015
Cet article propose une analyse du rôle joué par les émotions lors des interactions médicales. Il... more Cet article propose une analyse du rôle joué par les émotions lors des interactions médicales. Il se fonde sur la comparaison d'interactions entre des professionnels et des patients dans deux services de gériatrie (consultations mémoire) et dans un hôpital psychiatrique de jour pour adolescents. Cinq types d'émotions sont alors distinguées selon l'usage auquel elles donnent lieu : émotions conflictuelles, figurées, sollicitées, projetées, validées. Il en ressort une réflexion sur la dimension émotionnelle des interactions médicales, en tant que théâtres d'une « expression obligatoire des sentiments ».
This article proposes an analysis of the role played by emotions in medical consultation. It is based on the comparison of interactions between patients and professionals in two geriatric wards (specialized memory consultations) and in an adolescent day care hospital. Five types of emotion are then distinguished according to their uses : those which are conflicting, related to face work, solicited, projected and validated. This leads to further examination of the emotional dimension of medical interactions, which are the theatre of an "obligatory expression of feelings." Entrées d'index
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Genèses, 2014
Cet article interroge le vieillissement à partir de l’agenda/journal d’un homme de quatre-vingt-s... more Cet article interroge le vieillissement à partir de l’agenda/journal d’un homme de quatre-vingt-sept ans, ancien employé des ressources humaines, rédigé alors qu’il vivait à domicile puis en maison de retraite. Partant d’une critique des approches du vieillissement en termes d’expérience, il propose d’analyser les écrits de l’enquêté en les replaçant dans leurs contextes sociaux et en les rapportant à la situation d’enquête, afin de comprendre les marges de manœuvre des personnes âgées au regard des cadres qui les contraignent.
This article examines aging using the calendar/journal of an 87-yearold man, a former human resources employee, begun while he was living in his own home and continuing after his move to a retirement home. Beginning with a critique of approaches to experience of aging, the article analyzes the informant’s writings by resituating them in their social contexts and connecting them to the survey situation, in order to understand the range of possibilities available to the elderly in relation to the frames that constrain them.
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Genèses, 2012
Cet article part d’un constat : aujourd’hui, les chercheurs en sciences sociales ne peuvent plus ... more Cet article part d’un constat : aujourd’hui, les chercheurs en sciences sociales ne peuvent plus se passer de l’usage d’internet. Pourtant, très peu de travaux ont cherché à adapter la méthodologie qualitative à ce média. En se focalisant sur les messageries instantanées, il s’agira de montrer les possibilités ouvertes par cette technologie dans le cadre d’un terrain ethnographique et d’en décrire quelques utilisations.
This article begins with fact : social science researchers today can no longer do their work without using the Internet. Yet very little effort has been made to adapt the qualitative method to this medium. By focusing on instant messaging, it aims to show the possibilities for ethnographic fieldwork opened up by this technology and describe a few of its uses.
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Terrains & Travaux, 2013
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The Meaning Management Challenge
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Books by Baptiste Brossard
Indiana University Press, 2019
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it... more Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. Forgetting Items focuses on that social experience of Alzheimer's, delineating the ways disease symptoms manifest and are understood through the interactions between patients and the people around them. Mapping out those interactions takes readers through the offices of geriatricians, into patients' narratives and interviews with caregivers, down the corridors of nursing homes, and into the discourses shaping public policies and media coverage. Revealing the everyday experience of Alzheimer's helps us better understand the depth of its impact and points us toward more knowledgeable, holistic ways to help treat the disease.
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Indiana University Press, 2018
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? ... more Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives? In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes. Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties. Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position. Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order—to calm down, or to avoid "going haywire" or "breaking everything." More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.
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Routledge, 2018
This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley’s thought, bringing together s... more This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley’s thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflect on Cooley’s theory and legacy. Offering an up-to-date analysis of Cooley’s reception in the history of the social sciences, an examination of epistemological and methodological advances on his work, critical assessments and novel articulations of his major ideas, and a consideration of new directions in scholarship that draws on Cooley’s thought, Updating Charles H. Cooley will appeal to sociologists with interests in social theory, interactionism, the history of sociology, social psychology, and the sociology of emotions.
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Alma Editeurs, 2017
Présentation de l’éditeur Alors que dans le monde près de 50 millions de personnes (800 000 en Fr... more Présentation de l’éditeur
Alors que dans le monde près de 50 millions de personnes (800 000 en France) sont diagnostiquées comme souffrant de la maladie d’Alzheimer ou d’une démence apparentée, une seule perspective prévaut : la perspective médicale. Ce livre propose un autre point de vue, complémentaire et critique.
Pour la première fois, une enquête sociologique immerge le lecteur dans les diverses relations qui forgent la réalité quotidienne des personnes concernées, depuis le bureau des gériatres jusqu’aux couloirs des centres d’hébergement. Sociologue habitué au travail de terrain, Baptiste Brossard a rencontré des patients, des médecins, des soignants, des familles, des directeurs de maisons de retraite. Il s’est entretenu avec eux, les a écoutés, observés. Ces témoignages, souvent émouvants, parfois édifiants ou surprenants, montrent que les démences ne peuvent être comprises seulement comme des problèmes de santé, que la maladie se façonne aussi à travers les liens qui se tissent autour des personnes.
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Sociological Quarterly, 2020
The sociological study of intellectual recognition has tended to focus on highly cited and highly... more The sociological study of intellectual recognition has tended to focus on highly cited and highly acclaimed authors and perspectives, while reserving some interest for those who are “forgotten.” We know much less about the liminal cases: authors who are in-between fame and oblivion. This paper proposes a way to study intellectual recognition, by examining the liminal case of sociologist Charles H. Cooley. Based on a multilayered (quantitative and qualitative) citation analysis of Cooley’s classic work, Human Nature and the Social Order (HNSO), we study the role of intellectual deference in accounting for this liminality. Specifically, we identify two distinct deference processes: acknowledgment and involvement. We argue that Cooley has survived intellectual oblivion by standing on the shoulders of citers, as he has received substantial acknowledgment but decreasing involvement. In the conclusion, we discuss the implications of our paper for the understanding of the making of sociological theory.
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Social Sciences and Medicine, 2019
Why do some mental illnesses emerge in certain times and places and later disappear? Because it i... more Why do some mental illnesses emerge in certain times and places and later disappear? Because it integrates a wide array of social processes and relies on a strong epistemological position, Hacking's theory of ecological niches constitutes the most comprehensive and ambitious attempt to answer this question. However, this theory lacks a convincing definition of its research object ("transient mental illnesses"), a conceptualization of how individuals would "fall ill" as well as a solid methodological framework to form case studies. This article addresses these issues in order to propose an extended theory of ecological niches.
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Utopia Studies, 2019
Why, in a given society, at a given point of its history, do some individuals design idealized fo... more Why, in a given society, at a given point of its history, do some individuals design idealized forms of social organization? While utopian studies have focused on analyzing the content of utopias, addressing definitional issues, or understanding the role of utopias in social change, this article proposes to examine the very production of utopias. This production is conceptualized as the "intersection" between the social trajectory of a utopia producer and the social context in which this production takes place. It compares nineteen in-depth case studies of classical and contemporary utopian texts in order to formulate five areas of investigation: (1) the political trajectory of the utopia producer, (2) the cultural and social capital of the producer, (3) "class distance" expressed through the utopian content, (4) the operations through which the utopian content is generated, and (5) the concepts of "utopian niches" and "utopian chains." It is argued that this account can provide a sociological model to understand utopia production and the rise of dystopia production over the course of the twentieth century.
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Sociological Focus, 2019
This article advocates a certain interpretation of grounded theory for the analysis of interviews... more This article advocates a certain interpretation of grounded theory for the
analysis of interviews with people diagnosed with dementia. Distinguishing
itself from the methodological approaches that, closer to thematic analysis,
consider the discourses of the participants as “pure symptoms” or “pure
meanings,” this interpretation consists in interpreting the content of the
interviews jointly with their enunciation situation and the social trajectories
of the participants. It then allows for extending the space of interpreting
possibilities, an endeavor especially crucial in research among discredited
populations.
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Sociology of Health and Illness, 2017
Contemporary research into health treats diagnosis as a central step in illness management and tr... more Contemporary research into health treats diagnosis as a central step in illness management and trajectories. Most public health policies, especially in the case of Alzheimer’s disease, claim that the earlier a diagnosis is made, the better it is for patients and caregivers. Quantitative and qualitative analysis from our longitudinal interview study, conducted with 60 caregivers of persons diagnosed with dementia, shows that this usual model of diagnosis [symptoms → diagnosis → meaning and caregiving] should be nuanced. First, diagnosis does not follow increased symptoms, but occurs rather through a process involving the observability of patients’ troubles and their interpretation of said troubles as requiring medical assistance ‐the ‘trouble?observability?interpretation convergence.’ Second, diagnosis does not systematically trigger the mobilisation of a caregiving network: such mobilisation may follow the diagnosis, but it can also provoke it, temporarily prevent it, or have no immediate impact. These observations beg the question: To what extent does diagnosis matter? We conclude by questioning the centrality of diagnosis in the illness trajectories and its crucial role in the mobilisation of a caregiving network, that is often taken for granted, and propose to distinguish between ‘anticipation diagnosis’ and ‘emergency diagnosis’.
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Journal of Aging Studies, 2016
How do residents' previous social positions influence the ways in which they deal with social lif... more How do residents' previous social positions influence the ways in which they deal with social life in nursing home? Based on observations and interviews in a private nursing home in France, this article describes daily life in the facility, the disability-based distinctions observed among residents, the strategies they use to " find their place, " and the references they make about their former social position in collective encounters. It shows that sociability in nursing homes is structured by the intertwining of " levels of disability " among residents, the social composition of the institution and its local surroundings, and the relative value attributed to each type of capital (in the sense of Bourdieu) in this context. The author proposes some assumptions that aim to generalize these specific findings.
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Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 2017
Based on the observation of around seventy memory consultations, this article provides an analysi... more Based on the observation of around seventy memory consultations, this article provides an analysis of cognitive assessment in the elderly in a Goffmanian perspective. During these interactions, patients run the risk of losing their credibility, given that what they say is both solicited by the geriatrician in order to spot potential daily difficulties and examined as potential signs of dementia. After having described how observed consultations work, the author presents the main strategies that patients seem to develop when doctors place their credibility in doubt and concludes with some reflections about interpretive issues regarding the elderly patients’ behavior during medical assessment.
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Symbolic Interaction, 2014
This article proposes an interactionist approach to self-injury behavior in youth. Mostly based o... more This article proposes an interactionist approach to self-injury behavior in youth. Mostly based on in-depth interviews with seventy people who self-harm or who have self-harmed at some point in their lives, it describes the process of daily self-injuring. It shows that this practice consists less in the self-harm in itself than in a liminal emotional state, composed of several successive steps, and that self-injury makes sense because concerned individuals subjectively see it as the most practical of known activities for releasing emotional troubles, then maintaining the interaction order surrounding them.
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Sociologie, 2013
Cet article propose une approche interactionniste des consultations mémoire – consultations spéci... more Cet article propose une approche interactionniste des consultations mémoire – consultations spécialisées dans l’évaluation cognitive des personnes âgées – axée sur la négociation de la « crédibilité » des patients. Il se focalise sur les stratégies adoptées par les patients lorsque leur crédibilité est mise en doute par le médecin. En prenant acte des variations de genre et de classe sociale, l’auteur conclut que les moyens utilisés par les personnes âgées pour rester crédibles contribuent souvent à les discréditer, et que le maintien d’une crédibilité est « structurellement improbable » car il dépend de paramètres (connaissances médicales, attentes sociales vis-à-vis des personnes âgées) qui dépassent le cadre de l’interaction.
This article proposes an interactionist approach to memory consultations-in which elderly patients’ cognitive performance is evaluated-through the negotiation of patient’s "credibility." It focuses on strategies used by patients when doctors question their credibility. Taking into account gender and class differences, the author concludes that the means used by the elderly to maintain credibility often result in a loss of credibility, and that maintaining credibility is "structurally unlikely" because it depends on parameters (medical knowledge, social expectations placed on the elderly) that go beyond the scope of the interaction.
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Sociologie du Travail, 2013
Cet article propose une approche sociologique du soin psychiatrique. Il se fonde sur un travail d... more Cet article propose une approche sociologique du soin psychiatrique. Il se fonde sur un travail de terrain mené dans un hôpital de jour à destination des adolescents, au cours duquel ont été effectués des observations et des entretiens avec des patients. L’auteur soutient que la motivation thérapeutique de la vie hospitalière peut être intégrée à la sociologie du travail psychiatrique. Pour ce faire, l’auteur décrit les interactions les interactions au sein de l’hôpital au prisme de l’incertitude inhérente à la notion de soin, et de ses conséquences sur l’identité des acteurs (soignants et soignés). Le « drame social du travail » qui en découle est alors compris comme une condition de réalisation du soin dans sa dimension émotionnelle.
Based on fieldwork conducted in a teenage day clinic where the author carried out observations and interviews with patients, this paper takes a sociological approach to psychiatric care. We argue that the therapeutic dimensions of daily life in a hospital can be included in the sociology of psychiatric work. To this end, we describe interactions that take place in the hospital through the prism of uncertainty — an inherent part of care — and how it impacts the identity of the actors involved (care givers and patients). The “social drama of work” that stems from this configuration can then be understood as a condition of care-giving on its emotional side.
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Terrains/Théories, 2015
Cet article propose une analyse du rôle joué par les émotions lors des interactions médicales. Il... more Cet article propose une analyse du rôle joué par les émotions lors des interactions médicales. Il se fonde sur la comparaison d'interactions entre des professionnels et des patients dans deux services de gériatrie (consultations mémoire) et dans un hôpital psychiatrique de jour pour adolescents. Cinq types d'émotions sont alors distinguées selon l'usage auquel elles donnent lieu : émotions conflictuelles, figurées, sollicitées, projetées, validées. Il en ressort une réflexion sur la dimension émotionnelle des interactions médicales, en tant que théâtres d'une « expression obligatoire des sentiments ».
This article proposes an analysis of the role played by emotions in medical consultation. It is based on the comparison of interactions between patients and professionals in two geriatric wards (specialized memory consultations) and in an adolescent day care hospital. Five types of emotion are then distinguished according to their uses : those which are conflicting, related to face work, solicited, projected and validated. This leads to further examination of the emotional dimension of medical interactions, which are the theatre of an "obligatory expression of feelings." Entrées d'index
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Genèses, 2014
Cet article interroge le vieillissement à partir de l’agenda/journal d’un homme de quatre-vingt-s... more Cet article interroge le vieillissement à partir de l’agenda/journal d’un homme de quatre-vingt-sept ans, ancien employé des ressources humaines, rédigé alors qu’il vivait à domicile puis en maison de retraite. Partant d’une critique des approches du vieillissement en termes d’expérience, il propose d’analyser les écrits de l’enquêté en les replaçant dans leurs contextes sociaux et en les rapportant à la situation d’enquête, afin de comprendre les marges de manœuvre des personnes âgées au regard des cadres qui les contraignent.
This article examines aging using the calendar/journal of an 87-yearold man, a former human resources employee, begun while he was living in his own home and continuing after his move to a retirement home. Beginning with a critique of approaches to experience of aging, the article analyzes the informant’s writings by resituating them in their social contexts and connecting them to the survey situation, in order to understand the range of possibilities available to the elderly in relation to the frames that constrain them.
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Genèses, 2012
Cet article part d’un constat : aujourd’hui, les chercheurs en sciences sociales ne peuvent plus ... more Cet article part d’un constat : aujourd’hui, les chercheurs en sciences sociales ne peuvent plus se passer de l’usage d’internet. Pourtant, très peu de travaux ont cherché à adapter la méthodologie qualitative à ce média. En se focalisant sur les messageries instantanées, il s’agira de montrer les possibilités ouvertes par cette technologie dans le cadre d’un terrain ethnographique et d’en décrire quelques utilisations.
This article begins with fact : social science researchers today can no longer do their work without using the Internet. Yet very little effort has been made to adapt the qualitative method to this medium. By focusing on instant messaging, it aims to show the possibilities for ethnographic fieldwork opened up by this technology and describe a few of its uses.
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Terrains & Travaux, 2013
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The Meaning Management Challenge
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Indiana University Press, 2019
Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it... more Alzheimer's disease has not only profound medical consequences for the individual experiencing it but a life-changing impact on those around them. From the moment a person is suspected to be suffering from Alzheimer's or another form of dementia, the interactions they encounter progressively change. Forgetting Items focuses on that social experience of Alzheimer's, delineating the ways disease symptoms manifest and are understood through the interactions between patients and the people around them. Mapping out those interactions takes readers through the offices of geriatricians, into patients' narratives and interviews with caregivers, down the corridors of nursing homes, and into the discourses shaping public policies and media coverage. Revealing the everyday experience of Alzheimer's helps us better understand the depth of its impact and points us toward more knowledgeable, holistic ways to help treat the disease.
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Indiana University Press, 2018
Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? ... more Why does an estimated 5% of the general population intentionally and repeatedly hurt themselves? What are the reasons certain people resort to self-injury as a way to manage their daily lives? In Why Do We Hurt Ourselves, sociologist Baptiste Brossard draws on a five-year survey of self-injurers and suggests that the answers can be traced to social, more than personal, causes. Self-injury is not a matter of disturbed individuals resorting to hurting themselves in the face of individual weaknesses and difficulties. Rather, self-injury is the reaction of individuals to the tensions that compose, day after day, the tumultuousness of their social life and position. Self-harm is a practice that people use to self-control and maintain order—to calm down, or to avoid "going haywire" or "breaking everything." More broadly, through this research Brossard works to develop a perspective on the contemporary social world at large, exploring quests for self-control in modern Western societies.
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Routledge, 2018
This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley’s thought, bringing together s... more This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooley’s thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflect on Cooley’s theory and legacy. Offering an up-to-date analysis of Cooley’s reception in the history of the social sciences, an examination of epistemological and methodological advances on his work, critical assessments and novel articulations of his major ideas, and a consideration of new directions in scholarship that draws on Cooley’s thought, Updating Charles H. Cooley will appeal to sociologists with interests in social theory, interactionism, the history of sociology, social psychology, and the sociology of emotions.
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Alma Editeurs, 2017
Présentation de l’éditeur Alors que dans le monde près de 50 millions de personnes (800 000 en Fr... more Présentation de l’éditeur
Alors que dans le monde près de 50 millions de personnes (800 000 en France) sont diagnostiquées comme souffrant de la maladie d’Alzheimer ou d’une démence apparentée, une seule perspective prévaut : la perspective médicale. Ce livre propose un autre point de vue, complémentaire et critique.
Pour la première fois, une enquête sociologique immerge le lecteur dans les diverses relations qui forgent la réalité quotidienne des personnes concernées, depuis le bureau des gériatres jusqu’aux couloirs des centres d’hébergement. Sociologue habitué au travail de terrain, Baptiste Brossard a rencontré des patients, des médecins, des soignants, des familles, des directeurs de maisons de retraite. Il s’est entretenu avec eux, les a écoutés, observés. Ces témoignages, souvent émouvants, parfois édifiants ou surprenants, montrent que les démences ne peuvent être comprises seulement comme des problèmes de santé, que la maladie se façonne aussi à travers les liens qui se tissent autour des personnes.
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Présentation de l'éditeur: Se couper, se brûler, se frapper soi-même : adolescents et jeunes adul... more Présentation de l'éditeur: Se couper, se brûler, se frapper soi-même : adolescents et jeunes adultes, ils sont nombreux à se soulager par l’automutilation des tensions de leur quotidien. Cinq années d’enquête de terrain ont permis à Baptiste Brossard de recueillir de nombreux récits dans un cadre hospitalier ou via Internet. Comment et dans quelles circonstances envisage-t-on de se blesser, de commencer, de recommencer ? Comment la vie en société produit-elle chez certains le désir de s’automutiler ? Que nous dit, à l’inverse, l’automutilation de la vie en société ?
Baptiste Brossard montre qu’il s’agit, en fait, d’une pratique d’autocontrôle : une manière de faire face aux attentes et à la pression de son milieu, qu’il s’agisse de réussite scolaire, de réussite sociale, d’identité de genre… Celui qui se blesse évite de « péter les plombs ». Il proteste sans perturber l’ordre des choses qui lui pose problème.
Fondé sur des témoignages directs, ce travail remarquable révèle la solitude d’une partie de la jeunesse contemporaine, des filles et des garçons qui s’organisent seuls pour gérer leur vie sociale. À leur corps défendant.
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"La trilogie The Walls Don’t Speak (Les murs ne parlent pas) est le résultat d'un dialogue ayant ... more "La trilogie The Walls Don’t Speak (Les murs ne parlent pas) est le résultat d'un dialogue ayant duré 3 ans entre le photographe Jean-Robert Dantou, et une équipe interdisciplinaire en sciences sociales coordonnée par l'anthropologiste Florence Weber.
Le photographe a installé son studio dans différentes institutions (maisons de soins psychiatriques, cliniques privées, hôpitaux psychiatriques) et également au-delà de leurs murs, travaillant avec les patients, leurs amis, leurs familles et les équipes soignantes sur des images ayant une signification pour chacun d'eux.
Dans la première partie, les auteurs mettent en perspective les représentations de la folie dans l'histoire de la photographie, et proposent une série d'objets et de textes comme autant de fenêtres dans la vie quotidienne de ceux qui sont décrits comme fous. Dans la deuxième partie, ils réfléchissent aux limites de la folie au travers d'une série de portraits dans laquelle les patients et les soignants d'une institution de soins psychiatriques sont photographiés sans distinction. La troisième partie est un essai qui combine photographie et écrit pour questionner ce qu'il est possible de photographier au sein d'une unité psychiatrique fermée."
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European journal of social theory, 2020
This article is the introduction to the special issue 'Sociology and psychology: what intersectio... more This article is the introduction to the special issue 'Sociology and psychology: what intersections?' In addition to presenting the articles included in this issue, the present text outlines the general stakes of interdisciplinarity between psychology and sociology. It argues that interdisciplinarity requires a specific conversion work between disciplines and that, in the particular case of sociology and psychology, importations and expor-tations of concepts and ideas have existed since the beginning of these disciplines.
Keywords interdisciplinarity, psychology, social psychology, sociology. sociology and psychology
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