This article considers a comparative analysis of the sociologies of Bourdieu, Boltanski & Thévenot, and Latour & Callon. Following a descending dialectic of the Bourdieu material structures to the ideal heights of Boltanski and Thévenot and to the platitudes of Latour and Callon, the author primarily displays Bourdieu’s genetic structuralism as a rational and relational thinking, which establishes a priority to the structures. He shows that the objectivist deviation of the theory of the fields and habitus tends to empty the reflexive capacities in which the actors are reduced into simple agents. In a second moment, the author shows that the Boltanski’s and Thévenot’s sociology of criticism allows to rectify or to correct the critical sociology. It introduces the symbolic mediations that are the Cities and conceive the Devices as commutators, which reestablish the link with the macrosociology. Finally, the author criticizes the elimination of the material and ideal structures that configure the action for the sociology of the actors in net. The action fixes itself in the practices that perform the world, associating human beings and the not human, in a never-ending fabric that covers the world.
Bourdieu; Boltanski; Latour; critical sociology; pragmatic sociology; theory of the actors in net; social; critical construction