Entre figura es e associa es. As sociologias de Norbert Elias e Bruno Latour = Between figurations and associations. The sociologies of Norbert Elias and Bruno Latour

Este artigo apresenta ideias relacionadas com a defini o de ‘realidade social’ e do ‘social’ desenvolvidas pelos cientistas sociais Norbert Elias e Bruno Latour. A exposi o dessas ideias é guiada pelas seguintes perguntas: qual é a crítica que os autores fazem aos pressupostos sociológicos dos quais eles se afastam? Como entendem os autores a realidade social, a sociedade, o social? Qual é a discuss o e a proposta que eles fazem sobre a tens o indivíduo – sociedade? Quais s o as diferen as e similitudes entre as duas propostas? Com a resposta dessas quest es se faz uma aproxima o aos principais pressupostos teóricos da Sociologia das figura es de Elias e à Sociologia das associa es de Latour, assim como se faz uma apresenta o das contribui es que os autores trazem à sociologia contemporanea. This article presents ideas relative to the definition of ‘social reality’ and ‘the social’ developed by the social scientists Norbert Elias and Bruno Latour. The presentation of these ideas is guided by the following questions: what is the criticism that the authors make to the sociological assumptions of which they move away?; How do they understand the social reality, society, the social?; What is the discussion and proposal that they do about the relationship individual - society?; What are the differences and similarities between the two proposals?. With the response to these issues, this article makes a connection to the main theoretical suppositions of the Elias’s Sociology of figurations and to the Latour’s Sociology of associations, as well as makes a presentation of the contributions of the authors to the contemporary sociology.