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Abstract

Devalued or marginalized by some minds, the humanities and social sciences (HSS) nevertheless remain for others, more lucid ones, a science whose rigor is of a different order and rather qualify them as "noble" and no longer as "soft." Thus, through their fields of investigation, when one examines their domains, their functions and their methods, their scientific and cognitive legitimacy is recognized in the face of attempts to exclude them from the scientific field. As for their perspectives, the idea, still in vogue, that these sciences aspire to understand the mind, reasoning, emotions and social interactions is being surpassed given the potential of their knowledge and their expertise already established in this regard. Their true future, compared to so-called nomological and formalized sciences, which seem to contribute only to the decay of humanity, is that they could one day be the key to the salvation of this humanity by fulfilling the functions that other sciences have not been able to assume. And whether or not the HSS definitively integrate the life sciences, a perspective envisioned by the ambitious project of sociologist Bernard Lahire, the great hope is that these sciences can conceive this general theory or this synthesis meant to resolve major contemporary challenges by proposing solutions that are equally verifiable and duly adapted to these challenges.

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