ABSTRACT
This chapter proposes to distinguish critical sociology from the sociology of criticism, that is, a sociology that is interested in the perspectives of social actors and recognises that they have a moral capacity to formulate critical judgements and to denounce injustices related to different orders of worth. However, these different forms of evaluation and coordination are not separated from experiential tests faced in various contexts, which must also be investigated. Therefore, pragmatic sociology makes it possible to specify some regimes of engagement, from proximity to the public, which reveal different adjustments to the world and to others. This social theory is applied to education in a dialogue with other sociologies.
