Vocational education and training train young women and men each year in vocational high school and in higher education. Who receives training and in what way ? What are the training conditions ? What stereotypes are being conveyed ? Based on sociological and historical surveys conducted in French and Swiss contexts, this books proposes to study...

The idea of collapse, mediated as the probable fate of our societies dealing with ecological crises, has been facing much criticism, even though recent illustrations of ongoing collapses, from Covid-19 to mega-fires, continue to multiply. Faced with this paradox, the authors adress the hypothesis of a major halt in our socio-economic and ...

What does it mean to be German? Where do the different German-speaking nations get their common culture? German national ethnology, called Volkskunde, is the result of a long history, which is linked to the political construction of Germany, but also of the German-speaking world as a whole.

How did the French lived the first lockdown ? How did the coronavirus take over our lives ? What was the impact on their mental health ? How did they perceive the management of the crisis, from the lockdown itself to the future vaccine ? Did they lose trust in health authorities and scientists?

Losing a loved one is a break in our lives. This loss interacts with a collective, the places where we live or even the social and political structures which normalize our lives. Faced with the apparent loneliness of mourning, the death of the loved one questions our identity as fundamentally rela-tional beings.

Participatory housing is apprehended in this book as much by a sociology of the city, as a relation to space and to others, as by taking into account public action and aspirations to limit the processes of individualization peculiar to our contemporary societies. It is the result of a team formed in 2013, the dynamics of which are based on the desi

Observing its division and distribution enables to bring light on the way wealth is shared and to realize how societies function. It draws special attention to the monopolization by some of resources and privileges, and the socio-spatial inequalities that result from it.

This is the translation of the first academic study of sneakers and the subculture that surrounds them. Since the 1980s, American sneaker enthusiasts have created a distinctive identity for themselves. How have sneakers come to gain this status and what makes them fashionable? In what ways are sneaker subcultures bound up with gender identity and..

Water flows everywhere ; it is essential for life. However, potable water, esential for mankind is not naturally located where men get together. As water only flows and renews itself continuously, men think to be able to control waterways. But which one does control the other ?