Sociologie de la transaction sociale: Repères sur la genèse de la problématique

The article proposes a few useful landmarks to understand the problematics of social transaction. It situates its genesis in American sociology and European sociology. It founds it in an original interest for social morphology and spatial morphology, aiming at articulating in the analysis of the inductive and deductive social, making space not only for the capital accumulated in theoretical practice, but also for those who decide, innovate, act. It places the problematic in the will of articulating production and reproduction of the society and shows the potential interest of reasoning in an analogical way the relations with "new sociologies" without perverting the initial orientation: placing interaction" exchange, negotiation and imposition-, of the conflict and the compromise in the centre of the collective dynamics.