Abstract
In the course of the last twenty years, French industrial sociology has worked out several, casually contrasting, versions of an answer to the sole and limited question : what about the relationship between technique and work ? This question dominates as well the research projects performed during the fifties, about the influence of technical progress on the evolution of work organisation, as the research projects performed at the turn of the sixties, about the working class evolution, its consciousness and attitudes to work. This technological determinism paradigma, which dominates both the social demand for research and the varied answers brought about by sociologists, has been substituted, after 1968 and during the present decade, by a new outlook considering technique more clearly as an instrument of social control. Such a shift of paradigma is less tied to any progress in theory than to some alteration of the social demand for research, a demand which itself is closely connected to the developing economic crisis.
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