Conference
French
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Abstract
Since André Siegfried (1913), considered to be the founding father of electoral studies, the purpose of these studies varies between highlighting collective regularities and structures, and looking for the characteristics of the individual — his particularity, personality, attitudes, habit... — capable of reporting on his views, of which his electoral behaviour is ultimately only a telling, an indication. Therefore, questioning electoral sociology is about the psychological or even anthropological assumptions made about the voter. We therefore call for the dossier of the psychological foundations of electoral sociology to be reopened. In this communication, we will start from the classic of Adorno (Adorno et al. 1950), which has recently been partially translated into French (Adorno 2007), to highlight the premise that such an approach implies, what they owe to their production context, and the timing of such an approach. It is therefore a critical reflection on concepts routinely mobilised by electoral sociology literature that this Communication would like to invite.