Histoire et sciences sociales : les paradigmes des Annales
Is there, as has recently been stated, such as thing as a "paradigm of Annales"? At present, we lack the sociological studies needed to understand more clearly the nature, over the last fifty years, of the movement which has coalesced around the journal founded by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre. The identity of 'Annales' is undoubtedly bound up with a scientific project, a network, institutions, a form of sensibility : still, it has undergone some marked changes. This article seeks to understand the logic behind these changes by analysing the shifting relations between history and the social sciences over the last half-century. These relations are explicitly at the heart of the 'Annales' enterprise, and they help us to understand the shifts and adjustments of an intellectual policy.