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Sociologie et sociétés

Recentrer l’analyse causale? Visages de la causalité en sciencessociales et recherche qualitativeRecentering Causal Analysis? Faces of Causality in the SocialSciences and Qualitative ResearchAlvaro P. PIRES

La construction des donnéesVolume 25, Number 2, automne 1993

URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/001561arDOI: https://doi.org/10.7202/001561ar

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Publisher(s)Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal

ISSN0038-030X (print)1492-1375 (digital)

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Cite this articlePIRES, A. P. (1993). Recentrer l’analyse causale? Visages de la causalité ensciences sociales et recherche qualitative. Sociologie et sociétés, 25 (2), 191–209.https://doi.org/10.7202/001561ar

Article abstractThis paper presents the hidden face of language on causality in the socialsciences an shows that we are producing " causal analyses " even when we arenot immediately conscious of the fact. Further, the paper calls attention to anew representation of causal thought which emphasizes the search for " causalpowers " in social relations and on the fact that qualitative researchcontributes in recentring conventional causal analysis. This new conception isthus to be found, paradoxically, at the intersection between philosophies whichare presented as being opposed, particularly " realism " and " constructivism ".On the way, it is seen how dirrerent types of causal statements are forms ofmeaning construction, which brings us to recognize, among other things, the "incompleteness " of all causal analysis and the role of creating meaning of theprefered theoretical framework.