Nathalie Bulle
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3661098 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nathalie Bulle |
| PRENOMES | Nathalie |
| SOBRENOME | Bulle |
| ASSINATURA | BULLE N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9134-0681 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
What Is Methodological Individualism? Anatomy of a Controversy
A constitutive version of methodological individualism (MI) derives from the approaches of Menger, Simmel, and Weber. It encompasses two key ideas: causal individualism and interpretive causation rooted in socially constructed meanings, which imply epistemological anti-reductionism. Early proponents such as Mises, Hayek, Popper, and Watkins advanced these principles, though Watkins departed from the constitutive version. Their contributions ignit…
Methodological Individualism
Originating in the late 19th century and becoming the subject of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences, methodological individualism is a paradigm that focuses on understanding social phenomena through the actions and choices of individuals rather than through collective explanations. This book highlights its theoretical bases as defined and developed in the writings of its founders and early proponents in the context of the livel…
Vygotsky’s Legacy Questioned
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind
In contrast to dominant approaches to human reason involving essentially a logical and instrumental conception of rationality easily modeled by artificial intelligence mechanisms, I argue that the specific capacities of the human mind are meta-analytic in nature, understood as irreducible to the analytic or the logical, or else the computational. Firstly, the assumption of a meta-analytical level of rationality is derived from key insights develo…
Richard MÜNCH, Governing the School under Three Decades of Neoliberal Reform. From Educracy to the Education-Industrial Complex
With this book, Richard Münch makes an important contribution to the sociology of education, questioning the forces that dominate contemporary educational development in the context of international globalization. These forces result from the diffusion to the educational sphere of neoliberal principles that dominate the regulation of the economic sphere (as expresses in the title of the introductory chapter “The economic governance of the school”…
The politico-cultural significance of teachers’ ‘professionalization’ movements
This article highlights the ideational factors underpinning the movements to professionalize teachers in the United-States and in France. It demonstrates that the deep driving force behind these movements is neither the modernization of schooling, nor the professional interests of teacher educators, but the politico-cultural hold of a philosophical paradigm that met the values and ideals of education and political systems’ actors. By associating …
Trois versions de l'individualisme méthodologique à l'aune de l'épistémologie
À partir de la mise en lumière de leurs divergences épistémologiques, trois interprétations de l'individualisme méthodologique (IM) sont distinguées : la version « constitutive », la version « minimaliste », et la version « réductionniste ». La première, originellement théorisée par Max Weber, demande que les phénomènes sociaux soient expliqués sur la base d'une interprétation « compréhensive » (en général rationnelle) du sens subjectif des actio…
Introduction. L'individualisme méthodologique aujourd'hui
International audience
Methodological individualism as anti-reductionism
The demarcation criterion of methodological individualism is not defined in relation to entities ultimately involved in explanation - individuals to the exclusion of structures - as supposed by its reductionist interpretations. It introduces an epistemological approach that distinguishes between causal powers representing driving forces - they arise from individual (trans-situational) rational capacities - and structural properties which do not e…
Can Analytical Sociology Do without Methodological Individualism
The explanatory power of structures in analytical sociologists’ agent-based models brings into question methodological individualism. We defend that (a) from an explanatory point of view, the syntactic properties of models require semantic conditions of interpretation drawn from a conceptual research framework; (b) in such a framework, social/relational structures have only partial, explanatory power (counterfactual); and (c) taking the explanati…
A Method of Measuring Inequality Within a Selection Process
To explain the inequalities in access to a discrete good G across two populations, or across time in a single national context, it is necessary to distinguish, for each population or period of time, the effect of the diffusion of G from that of unequal outcomes of underlying micro-social processes. The inequality of outcomes of these micro-social processes is termed inequality within the selection process. We present an innovative index of measur…
Raymond Boudon, a classical sociologist
This homage to the prominent French sociologist Raymond Boudon (1934-2013), one of the most notable scholars of our day, who can be said to stand within the classical tradition of sociology in emphasising individual social action, along with the rationality of action and choice, gives a comprehensive representation of his work and achievements
Slow and fast thinking, historical-cultural psychology and major trends of modern epistemology
Comparing OECD educational models through the prism of Pisa
The PISA survey influences educational policies through an international competitive process which is not wholly rationally-oriented. Firstly, PISA league tables act normatively upon the definition of formal educational aims while the survey tests cannot evaluate the educational systems’ relative strengths with regards to such aims. We argue that they measure a kind of academic potential of the students. Secondly, errors in interpreting national …
Naturalism as a political-cultural enterprise
Naturalism in the social sciences, described in this article as ‘constitutive’, tends to substantiate a single principle of social and human development by extrapolating the modes of development for the basic forms of life to the modes of development of its superior forms. Several versions of the nature of mankind are thus put forward invoking biological inheritance, originating amorality, pure forms of original humanity or, on the contrary, the …
L'imaginaire réformateur
Introduction générale
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Sociologie et éducation
On Sociology. Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory
La Rationalité des décisions scolaires
Cette édition numérique a été réalisée à partir d’un support physique, parfois ancien, conservé au sein du dépôt légal de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, conformément à la loi n° 2012-287 du 1er mars 2012 relative à l’exploitation des Livres indisponibles du XXe siècle. L'expansion scolaire aidant, l'enseignement secondaire se transforme en modifiant ses objectifs et son organisation. Cette évolution entraîne une dissolution du modèle éducat…
Simulation des choix de filière scolaire
Bulle Nathalie. Simulation des choix de filière scolaire. Application à l'orientation des élèves dans le second cycle du secondaire depuis le début du siècle en France. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1996, 37-4. pp. 567-604
Comparing OECD educational models through the prism of Pisa
The PISA survey influences educational policies through an international competitive process which is not wholly rationally-oriented. Firstly, PISA league tables act normatively upon the definition of formal educational aims while the survey tests cannot evaluate the educational systems’ relative strengths with regards to such aims. We argue that they measure a kind of academic potential of the students. Secondly, errors in interpreting national …
Can Analytical Sociology Do without Methodological Individualism
The explanatory power of structures in analytical sociologists’ agent-based models brings into question methodological individualism. We defend that (a) from an explanatory point of view, the syntactic properties of models require semantic conditions of interpretation drawn from a conceptual research framework; (b) in such a framework, social/relational structures have only partial, explanatory power (counterfactual); and (c) taking the explanati…
Methodological individualism as anti-reductionism
The demarcation criterion of methodological individualism is not defined in relation to entities ultimately involved in explanation - individuals to the exclusion of structures - as supposed by its reductionist interpretations. It introduces an epistemological approach that distinguishes between causal powers representing driving forces - they arise from individual (trans-situational) rational capacities - and structural properties which do not e…
Simulation des choix de filière scolaire
Bulle Nathalie. Simulation des choix de filière scolaire. Application à l'orientation des élèves dans le second cycle du secondaire depuis le début du siècle en France. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1996, 37-4. pp. 567-604
The politico-cultural significance of teachers’ ‘professionalization’ movements
This article highlights the ideational factors underpinning the movements to professionalize teachers in the United-States and in France. It demonstrates that the deep driving force behind these movements is neither the modernization of schooling, nor the professional interests of teacher educators, but the politico-cultural hold of a philosophical paradigm that met the values and ideals of education and political systems’ actors. By associating …
A Method of Measuring Inequality Within a Selection Process
To explain the inequalities in access to a discrete good G across two populations, or across time in a single national context, it is necessary to distinguish, for each population or period of time, the effect of the diffusion of G from that of unequal outcomes of underlying micro-social processes. The inequality of outcomes of these micro-social processes is termed inequality within the selection process. We present an innovative index of measur…
Slow and fast thinking, historical-cultural psychology and major trends of modern epistemology
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
On Sociology. Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory
Simulation des choix de filière scolaire
Bulle Nathalie. Simulation des choix de filière scolaire. Application à l'orientation des élèves dans le second cycle du secondaire depuis le début du siècle en France. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1996, 37-4. pp. 567-604
La Rationalité des décisions scolaires
Cette édition numérique a été réalisée à partir d’un support physique, parfois ancien, conservé au sein du dépôt légal de la Bibliothèque nationale de France, conformément à la loi n° 2012-287 du 1er mars 2012 relative à l’exploitation des Livres indisponibles du XXe siècle. L'expansion scolaire aidant, l'enseignement secondaire se transforme en modifiant ses objectifs et son organisation. Cette évolution entraîne une dissolution du modèle éducat…
On Sociology. Numbers, Narratives and the Integration of Research and Theory
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002)
Sociologie et éducation
Introduction générale
L'imaginaire réformateur
Comparing OECD educational models through the prism of Pisa
The PISA survey influences educational policies through an international competitive process which is not wholly rationally-oriented. Firstly, PISA league tables act normatively upon the definition of formal educational aims while the survey tests cannot evaluate the educational systems’ relative strengths with regards to such aims. We argue that they measure a kind of academic potential of the students. Secondly, errors in interpreting national …
Naturalism as a political-cultural enterprise
Naturalism in the social sciences, described in this article as ‘constitutive’, tends to substantiate a single principle of social and human development by extrapolating the modes of development for the basic forms of life to the modes of development of its superior forms. Several versions of the nature of mankind are thus put forward invoking biological inheritance, originating amorality, pure forms of original humanity or, on the contrary, the …
Slow and fast thinking, historical-cultural psychology and major trends of modern epistemology
Raymond Boudon, a classical sociologist
This homage to the prominent French sociologist Raymond Boudon (1934-2013), one of the most notable scholars of our day, who can be said to stand within the classical tradition of sociology in emphasising individual social action, along with the rationality of action and choice, gives a comprehensive representation of his work and achievements
A Method of Measuring Inequality Within a Selection Process
To explain the inequalities in access to a discrete good G across two populations, or across time in a single national context, it is necessary to distinguish, for each population or period of time, the effect of the diffusion of G from that of unequal outcomes of underlying micro-social processes. The inequality of outcomes of these micro-social processes is termed inequality within the selection process. We present an innovative index of measur…
Can Analytical Sociology Do without Methodological Individualism
The explanatory power of structures in analytical sociologists’ agent-based models brings into question methodological individualism. We defend that (a) from an explanatory point of view, the syntactic properties of models require semantic conditions of interpretation drawn from a conceptual research framework; (b) in such a framework, social/relational structures have only partial, explanatory power (counterfactual); and (c) taking the explanati…
Methodological individualism as anti-reductionism
The demarcation criterion of methodological individualism is not defined in relation to entities ultimately involved in explanation - individuals to the exclusion of structures - as supposed by its reductionist interpretations. It introduces an epistemological approach that distinguishes between causal powers representing driving forces - they arise from individual (trans-situational) rational capacities - and structural properties which do not e…
The politico-cultural significance of teachers’ ‘professionalization’ movements
This article highlights the ideational factors underpinning the movements to professionalize teachers in the United-States and in France. It demonstrates that the deep driving force behind these movements is neither the modernization of schooling, nor the professional interests of teacher educators, but the politico-cultural hold of a philosophical paradigm that met the values and ideals of education and political systems’ actors. By associating …
Trois versions de l'individualisme méthodologique à l'aune de l'épistémologie
À partir de la mise en lumière de leurs divergences épistémologiques, trois interprétations de l'individualisme méthodologique (IM) sont distinguées : la version « constitutive », la version « minimaliste », et la version « réductionniste ». La première, originellement théorisée par Max Weber, demande que les phénomènes sociaux soient expliqués sur la base d'une interprétation « compréhensive » (en général rationnelle) du sens subjectif des actio…
Introduction. L'individualisme méthodologique aujourd'hui
International audience
Richard MÜNCH, Governing the School under Three Decades of Neoliberal Reform. From Educracy to the Education-Industrial Complex
With this book, Richard Münch makes an important contribution to the sociology of education, questioning the forces that dominate contemporary educational development in the context of international globalization. These forces result from the diffusion to the educational sphere of neoliberal principles that dominate the regulation of the economic sphere (as expresses in the title of the introductory chapter “The economic governance of the school”…
Vygotsky’s Legacy Questioned
Rationality As A Meta-Analytical Capacity of the Human Mind
In contrast to dominant approaches to human reason involving essentially a logical and instrumental conception of rationality easily modeled by artificial intelligence mechanisms, I argue that the specific capacities of the human mind are meta-analytic in nature, understood as irreducible to the analytic or the logical, or else the computational. Firstly, the assumption of a meta-analytical level of rationality is derived from key insights develo…
Methodological Individualism
Originating in the late 19th century and becoming the subject of ongoing methodological debates in the social sciences, methodological individualism is a paradigm that focuses on understanding social phenomena through the actions and choices of individuals rather than through collective explanations. This book highlights its theoretical bases as defined and developed in the writings of its founders and early proponents in the context of the livel…
What Is Methodological Individualism? Anatomy of a Controversy
A constitutive version of methodological individualism (MI) derives from the approaches of Menger, Simmel, and Weber. It encompasses two key ideas: causal individualism and interpretive causation rooted in socially constructed meanings, which imply epistemological anti-reductionism. Early proponents such as Mises, Hayek, Popper, and Watkins advanced these principles, though Watkins departed from the constitutive version. Their contributions ignit…
Sociology (16 obras) · Political science (13 obras) · Epistemology (12 obras) · Philosophy (12 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Education, sociology, and vocational training (5 obras) · French Urban and Social Studies (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Individualism (4 obras) · Law (4 obras)