Is it possible to undertake a sociological analysis of works of art? This article considers the arguments for both the negative and positive answers to this question that emerged in France in a vivid manner at the turn of the millennium. It examines the main arguments exchanged by the supporters and detractors of this sub-discipline of the sociology of art, notably those relating to the problem of interpretation (how does one verify this process sociologically when it is applied to a work of art?) and to the ways of presenting evidence. The discussion of these various arguments does not lead to the conclusion that it is impossible to explore heuristically the sociology of artworks in a pertinent way but to an insistence on heightened vigilance and to the formulation of certain principles for the use of sociologists who engage with such objects, if sometimes without the requisite caution.

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艺术作品和文学文本的社会学会存在吗？一场非常法国的认识论辩论

是否可以对艺术作品进行社会学分析？这篇文章以生动的方式考虑了在世纪之交法国出现的这个问题的否定和肯定答案的论据。它研究了艺术社会学这一分支学科的支持者和反对者交换的主要论点，特别是与解释问题有关的论点（当它应用于艺术作品时，如何从社会学上验证这一过程？）和举证方式。对这些不同论点的讨论并没有得出结论，即不可能以一种相关的方式启发式地探索艺术品的社会学，而是坚持提高警惕并制定某些原则供从事此类研究的社会学家使用。物体，