The construction of racism. The contribution of statistical surveys to the sociology of racism
Interview with Milena Doytcheva and Yvan Gastaut
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14428/emulations.42.09Keywords:
racism, statisticsAbstract
Based on the findings of two statistical surveys in France - Trajectoires et Origines (Ined-Insee, 2008) and the ten-year panel of Génération 1998 (CEREQ) - Jean-Luc Primon reviews the contribution of statistical surveys to the factualisation, but also to the "sociologisation" of racism. Starting from a questioning of the way in which the notion of racism is operationalised, he shows how these devices make it possible to go beyond the assimilation of racism to prejudice or aggression alone, in order to document notions such as "structural racism", "institutional racism" or even "systemic racism". The use of statistical survey procedures and results in turn sheds light on contemporary debates on racism.