[Sociology and nursing science: reflections on an interdisciplinary approach]

The present text is not the result of a necessarily improved sociological theory. It acts rather like an exploratory questioning on the contribution of sociology to the formation and the practice of the nurses in the context of globalization. Our purpose is related more precisely to the "décloisonnement" of the disciplines and the contribution of the interdisciplinary studies. To do so, we put in perspective a new conceptual approach called the "socio-environmental approach for health" (Bouchard and his/her colleagues; 2002) which aloud to introduce and to question concepts like the governorship, globalization, the social capital, life quality and health care. This conceptual unit is not exhaustive nor even homogeneous. It only makes it possible to think of what is at stake in the development of nurses health care practice and shows the central contribution of an interdisciplinary approach.