El conocimiento científico y el saber práctico en la sociología pragmática francesa. Reflexiones sobre la sociología de la ciencia de Bruno Latour y la sociología política de Luc Boltanski

Abstract

This article is orientated to systematize the way in which the pragmatic sociology tries to coordinate the scientific knowledge and practical reason or ordinarily. For it, we will work with his founding parents: B.Latour and L.Boltanski. The first one realizes his original works in the frame of the sociology of the sciences; the second one, in the frame of the political sociology. From both, we will realize a comparative study to brings over the contributions of the above-mentioned current on the status of the knowledge in the scientific practice. For it, we will use conceptual axes of the pragmatic sociology. First one will work on the idea of hypothesis of continuity, with which this current tries to break numerous classic antinomia of the sociology; then the notion of symmetry will be in use for showing some of the methodological foundations with which the pragmatic sociology tries not to fall down in apriori of the observer; finally, the notion of test will be emphasized to show how the action depends fundamentally on the competitions of the actors in situation.