L’EUROPE COMME UTOPIE COMMUNAUTAIRE : PERSPECTIVE SOCIOLOGIQUE DE LA COMPLEXITE DE L’IDENTITE

Abstract

The social world is experiencing – with modernization, the development of science, especially of communication, social changes and social organizations – upheavals related not only to the identity and cultural reality, but also to the paradigmatic one. This is what paved the way for the sociological analysis, in particular, of societies as “complex systems”. It is precisely within this framework that Edgar Morin, sociologist (and so much more…), implemented his theory of complexity (and in fact, well after Descartes and Bachelard, his own “method”) by articulating, in a systematic way, the social perspectives, with the biological and physical dimensions (nature), but also with the more anthropological and psychological aspects (culture) around his, now famous, concept of “complexity”. In an attempt to understand the transition from a territorial identity, in traditional and rural societies, to a more professional identity, in more modern and urban societies, we have mobilized the main paradigms of complex thought. European construction has, in fact, turned out to be a “social laboratory” for analysis.