TY - BOOK AU - Lemieux,Cyril TI - The Ambition of Sociology PY - 2013///. N1 - 80 N2 - Sociology cannot be defined as the outright opposite of modern ideology. Its ambition is rather to succeed, from within the mental framework of modernity, to think of modernity as a mental framework. This paper explores two remarkable attempts that aimed to achieve this goal in the 20th century: Dumont’s ideological analysis and Mauss’s praxeological approach. By assessing their respective virtues and limits, one seeks to determine how sociology nowadays can regain its founding ambition UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-archives-de-philosophie-2013-4-page-591?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -