In this article, it tries to demonstrate that the critic of the utilitarian reason, processed by the paradigm of the gift contributes for a radical reflection of the methodological choices in the extent of the social sciences. When one inteds to interrogate the social bond, the gift paradigm sets a third level of analysis of the social action in motion: the level of the nets and of the relationships. In the extent ontologic, that allows the sociological theories to transcend, simultaneously, the dilemm as of the holism and of the methodological individualism, opening new description ways, explanation, interpretation and evaluation of the operation of the rules of the social.
utilitarian reason; Ontology; Epistemalogy of Social Networks