ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the place of performative sociology within the scientific field. The notion of social embeddedness has played a major role in the history of economic sociology. Beyond economic necessities, Emile Durkheim therefore envisages the emergence of modern capitalism in terms of the emergence of new social and societal configurations. Sociation and communalisation are therefore intimately linked, as the market is embedded in a community sphere which is a condition of its existence and a way of "making society". The name of the American sociologist Mark Granovetter is systematically associated with the emergence of the notion of network in sociology. The place of an individual within a cultural system is, unlike the one within a network, linked to a set of normative conceptions. Callonian performativist sociology refuses both to conceive performativity as an ideal movement and to think of society in terms of the notion of embeddedness.
