Umstrittene Repräsentation der Schweiz

What happens when in the middle of the Cold War a theater director who has been inspired by the commedia dell'arte and popular customs of western Switzerland teams up with IBM Switzerland in order to carry out a live interview with the visitors to the 1964 national exhibition based on a sociological survey written by researchers from Paris? The result was a full-blown political scandal and a sociological study whose raw material was ultimately used by the famous sociologist Luc Boltanski as a basis for his first monograph. Koni Weber reconstructs the genesis, development and rejection of a sociological analysis. He breaks down the heterogeneity of sociological methods in the 60s and examines a piece of contemporary Swiss history between 1955 and 1964 from the perspective of the history of knowledge.