Sociological Classes, Economic Classes, Ecological Class: Social Conjugation and Time Differentiation

In the classic sociology, the classification of sociological rites and practices requires to recognize explicitly the value system allowing a progressive identification of social practices (Durkheim and Mauss, 1905). Thos methodological approach links the modalities of classification with the type of society in order to reveal the type of beliefs within social reflexivity.

Sociological studies on the different forms of recognition invite to specify how similarities and differences are composed in the construction of social identities (identity and discrimination), in the configuration of cultural exchanges (Honneth, Lamont). This approach specifies the role of coding in the construction of social classifications (Bowker and Star, 1994, Strauss, 1994)

In socio-economic studies, the working class is underlined by the division of value and working time (Marx 1). The separation of fixed capital and circulating capital delineate the productive class and finance (Grundrisse). The end of a financialization cycle set up the large extension of the patrimonial classes indexed on the extended valorization of financial circulation (Piketty , 2015)

The “ecological class as unified” takes charge of the question of habitability of the earth. "It support a broader, longer, more complex vision of history “(Latour2023). It supposes a class of mobilization, so to occupy the public spaces and their issues of vulnerability. This expansion of long-term issues questions the tension between the patrimonial class (requalification of property) and the wage class (energy costs, mobility...) and their dialectics of control.. These two frameworks of environmental justice (medium term/short term) distinguish the priorities of sustainable development. The notion of new climate regime formulated by Latour et Charbonnier progresses through the formation of multiple coalitions and multiple political channels. The unified process construction of an ecological class remains fragmented unless the purposive conditions for convergence are created ( Gramsci).