ABSTRACT
The modelling of practices and ways of inhabiting is tripped up by the social complexity and remains controversial in social sciences, notably among sociologists. In the sociological studies on social practices, the approaches remain very qualitative, seeking to highlight the sources or the logic of the action, leading, at best, to ideal typical qualitative typologies that used for modelling. The relationship that individuals have to housing or the premises they occupy is a social construct that can be analysed as sociotechnical action systems. Energy performance is thus built within the interaction between the occupants/users and the technical objects at their disposal, in contexts that are always particular. Housing and the workplace are specific sociotechnical configurations that can be considered as “heterogeneous arrangements that only mix individual and collective actors, but also techniques, procedures and rules, which enter into the configuration alongside humans”.
