Le déploiement de la recherche au Centre d’études sociologiques (1945-1960)

The Development of Research in the Centre of Sociological Studies The activity of the first years of the Centre of sociological studies, under the sign of a difficult historical period and a chronic lack of means, shows a proliferation of pluridisciplinary researches led in scattered order by teams that lived together as well as possible in a structure which frontiers are uncertain. The main object was the apprenticeship of ground inquiries methods that was until then near missing in the universe of academic French sociology. In the middle of all those works that concerned different fields of research, the psychosociologists had probably a key part in passing on the methodological knowledge that they had first tried. This apprenticeship was probably done for a new generation of young sociologists in an informal way during discussions and points of view exchanges that they demanded and organized themselves