VIOLENCE OF POLITICAL DISCOURSE AND MARGINALIZATION OF SOCIOLOGISTS: THE VISION OF THE UNIVERSITY ELITE OF SFAX

Abstract Our problem is part of what is called, after the Tunisian revolution, "Democratic construction" while confronting the ideal to which we aspire and the existing reality. We will raise this issue by highlighting the study of the foundations of democracy through the conversations that evolve at the level of public space. Of course, current Tunisia is still dominated by conflicts and political interests opposing a real social reform project. These conflicts have expressed themselves for us via social networks and what is happening there, or a paradox has become manifest in two facets: the first is the continuation of the aggressive discourse and the bosom of an experience lived by the authorities called democracy, and the second is the exclusion of specialists in sociology and the brand of analysis of social conditions entrusted to elements fabricated by the digital age and the spectacle, and transformed into elites. At the level of this study, we will focus on the crisis of dialogue in the public media space and the marginalization of sociologists from the discussion space, while basing ourselves on a semi-directive interview elaborated with the academic elite of the sociology department of Sfax University.