Structures sociales et structures de perception du monde social - article ; n°2 ; vol.1, pg 18-20

Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales - Année 1975 - Volume 1 - Numéro 2 - Pages 18-20
Social structures and structures of perception of the social world The evolutionist model that leads numerous American sociologists to see other societies as so many stages on the path toward the American society consists of projecting on the contemporary world the structure of that society : a structure that is, at the same time, synchronic -in which the hierarchy of ethnic groups maintains a complex relationship with the hierarchy of classes -and diachronic -in which immigrant groups arrived in a certain historical order. The social structure, having become a mental structure, tends to organize the perception of the social world. For Parsons or Iipset, Bellah or La Palombara, every American aspires toward the model of the WASP (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) in the same way that allnations are in evolution toward American society, or, more exactly, toward the WASP conception of that society.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.