Sociology has emerged as a key discipline among the sciences of man and society, along with older subjects.
Sociology is able to report, inform, discuss and explain the complex social situations and social change. With its power of analysis, sociology provides diagnostic and advance proposals to organizations in the city school system for the family. Sociology also invented a variety of paradigms to pursue theoretical debate and intellectual controversies with other social sciences.
On the often difficult access, sociology requires a clear presentation. After the genesis of the discipline and its history until the middle of the Twentieth century, the book presents the theories of contemporary writers: Boudon, Bourdieu, Crozier, Goffman, Garfinkel, Parsons, Touraine, etc.. For each of these, J. -P. Durand and R. Weil present the historical context of emergence, a summary of the main theoretical input and critique.
Two chapters then deal with the process and sociological techniques. In the second part, specialists french, Belgian and Quebec expose ongoing debates in two fields: the urban, labor, development, politics, family, religion, education, culture, technology of information and communication, etc.. The last part examines the uses of sociology today and reflects on its ability to interpret or change the world.
Sociology for students, this book has also been designed for those who wish to acquire a second competency in sociology at university, in business or administration. In pursuing the objective of teaching explicit knowledge,  "Sociologie Contemporaine" drives concepts and methods to decrypt and understand the society.