ABSTRACT
The teachers are defending a gravely threatened language, the trade unionists are defending employment or income, and the militants are devising a nationalist program progressing from autonomy to independence—but there is nothing to bring them together. Nationalists everywhere constantly answer by saying that the unity of the national movement is provided by the national reality itself; the language, culture, and history common to all the inhabitants of the same territory, or at least to the great majority of them. The Occitanists and the wine-growers seemed to be united, but this may have been in appearance only. The aim of all sociological intervention is to define the maximum of possible action, and hence of knowledge, and to help the actors to become even more fully actors. The division and opposition of the various components of Occitanist action may be easily perceived; by contrast, the work of the movement.
