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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• David-Blais, Martin

Titel

Le schème actantiel et l’interactionnisme de Peter L. Berger: La cognition dans l’explication sociologique : Essai à partir d’une lecture de The Sacred Canopy

Ist Teil von

• Studies in religion, 2016-03, Vol.45 (1), p.26-42

Ort / Verlag

London, England: SAGE Publications

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Berthelot, social sciences use several basic schemes in order to develop macro-level explanations, the Action Based Scheme being one of them. In this article, it is argued that one should not assimilate the Action Based Scheme solely to Methodological Individualism even though this tradition has received much credit. One key issue here is the status of cognition within explanation frames. More precisely, one should introduce within the explanation frames several types of cognitive states. It will be argued that there is a conceptual compatibility between the Action Based Scheme and the interactionist sociology that was proposed in the 1950s and 1960s. This theoretical exploration will focus on Peter Berger’s theory of secularization as developed in The Sacred Canopy. It will be claimed that Berger has not only proposed an explanation that brings up cognitive states, he also refers to cognitive states of a modest nature, more modest than those Methodological Individualism usually considers.