Narrative Refiguration of Social Events Paul Ricoeur's Contribution to Rethinking the Social

The analysis of events has been a central issue for social sciences for a long time, and the problem of an event's definition and distinctiveness is still at stake in sociological debates today. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the contribution of Paul Ricoeur's narrative theory to social events studies. First, this is done through an explication of the concept of the event in the framework of a narrative approach. Secondly, the paper highlights the narrative's capacity of, refiguring. the social by re-describing social events and their temporality through the logic of story-telling. In addition to its interpretative explanations and illustrations, the paper provides critical arguments concerning the limitations of Paul Ricoeur's narrative approach with respect to sociological event-analysis.