Towards a history of administrative intelligence.

Summary This article looks back at the cycle of publications born of the fiftieth anniversary of the Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO), which the dossier "naissance de la sociologie administrative" (birth of administrative sociology) brings to a close. Since the colloquium organized for the 50th anniversary of the laboratory in 2014, several dossiers have been published: in Entreprises et histoire (n°86, 2016), in the Revue française de science politique (n°70-1, 2020) and now in this issue of Mouvement social. The aim of the dossier is to present and stimulate new critical reflections on the transformations in the sociology of administration since the founding work of Michel Crozier and his teams. By situating the contributions in the dossier in the recent revival of the history of the social sciences, this article is also a plea for reforms that are a little less oblivious to the history and sociology of the State, the administration and the civil service.