Abstract
This paper aims at summarizing and reconstructing the development process of the Touraine sociology, with a special attention to its core thesis. According to the Touraine sociology, potentially there is one core ‘cultural model’ and one core ‘social rapport’ around the model in each societal type.
‘Action Sociology’ that was against functionalism about social system in the early Touraine sociology, suggests that in industrial societies, enterprises and syndicalism of control create a core social rapport around the core cultural model (namely, production and evolution), while in post-industrial societies, technocrats and anti-technocracy movements make a core social rapport around the orientation of information and knowledge. However, these hypotheses were only verified partially, which made the Touraine reconsider their theories. Nonetheless, it does not mean that they are changing their aforementioned core thesis. The core thesis can lead to the formation of Sociology with social movement in the center. Finally, this paper attempts to show the possibility of how to de-frenchify the Touraine sociology through welfare regime theory.
