Journalists and Sociologists

Reviewing the Battles over Ways of “Giving an Account of Society”

Bibliographic Data

ID19081228
AuthorsVincent Goulet (0000-0002-9315-5719, corresponding author), Philippe Ponet
TranslatorsInist Inist
Year2009
Volume16
Publication date2009-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQuestions de communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1633-5961 • E-ISSN: 2259-8901
PublisherOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/questionsdecommunication.8882
OpenAlexW1599115024
LanguageEN
References cited26

A complex landscape of interdependent connections, a tangled web of motivations and interpenetrating methods and tools: such is the picture that emerges from the few existing studies on relationships between journalism and sociology. Recurrent themes include a somewhat indistinct "dividing line" (Ruellan, 1992 : 25), "lines of demarcation between the two camps", "zones of contact", "ring-fencing / tanchit" (ibid.), and the various "affinities and misunderstandings" that result (Charon, 1996 : 17). Other topics discussed are methods and tools (press cuttings, interviews), with analyses of "borrowings, legitimate or not" (ibid. 30) between journalists and sociologists, conflicts of legitimacy and different ways of treating "actual facts"

Epistemology · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Education, sociology, and vocational training · Media Studies and Communication · Philosophy

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