In addition to highlighting recent socio-spatial transformations of (sub)urban spaces in Northern France through (de)industrialization, discrimination and poverty, this book provides original conceptual framework and tools for thinking about social change in a wide variety of contexts.
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Capitalisme, race et pauvreté
Clément Barbier, Vianney Schlegel
This book offers a sociological understanding of the field of mental health care today, between new paradigm of "good" care and dispersion of therapeutic practices.
Entre nouvel ordre thérapeutique et dispersion des pratiques
Nadia Garnoussi, Françoise Champion
Can representative democracy still be reformed? This book examines the efforts of citizens' groups in France, Spain, and Belgium working to influence the public action of their elected representatives.
Belgique, Espagne, France (années 2010)
Jessy Bailly
This collective work focuses on the spatial dimension of hospitality in action, as well as on certain spatial situations, linked to the care for others, seen as contemporary issues for society, making it possible to address them in a cross-disciplinary way.
De l'hôpital à la ville
Céline Barrère, Catherine Grout
Céline Bonicco-Donato
This book provides an analysis of the phenomenon of managerialization, connecting llocal work situations to major economic and social dynamics.
Des interactions de travail aux institutions du capitalisme et de l'État
Isabelle Chambost, Jean-Luc Metzger
In contrast to the psychology-fuelled books aimed at decision-makers, this book shows the full depth of the social relationships behind the decision.
Études de cas en sciences sociales
Patrick Castel, Marie-Emmanuelle Chessel
Une analyse sociologique sans parti-pris des conditions de réception de l'option éolienne et des mobilisations qui en contestent le bienfondé et sa mise en œuvre sur le terrain en France.
Sociologie des contre-mobilisations énergétiques
Stéphanie Dechézelles
Sociology has been particularly prolific in the face of Alzheimer's disease in the 2000s. Driven by a context in which Alzheimer's disease was a growing concern, and encouraged by dedicated funding, a multitude of studies emerged.
Aline Chamahian, Vincent Caradec
Fabrice Gzil
The life course becomes an essential part of public policies in Europe, spearhead of a neoliberal model of society that through the «biographical injunction» promotes autonomy and freedom. This book proposes to reflect on the place of the life course in the scientific space and in the social space in civil society.
Logiques individuelles, collectives et institutionnelles
Catherine Négroni, Marc Bessin
Is not the weakening of the working class and the weakening of the trade union and political organizations that claimed to speak on its behalf too soon concluded with the "end of the workers"?
Pascal Depoorter, Nathalie Frigul
Nicolas Hatzfeld
This book introduces Claude Dubar, a great author of french sociology, through a serie of testimonies of former collegues and current research works. It highlights his theoretical and epistemology's frameworks about present questions of education, training, profession and identity.
Mokhtar Kaddouri, Marie-Christine Vermelle
The digital revolution has profoundly changed our ways of learning, learning and participating in public debate. Young people born at the turn of the 2000s are seen as the spearheads of this new society. This book depicts a somewhat less enchanting situation.
Les digital natives au prisme des inégalités socio-culturelles
Julien Boyadjian
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...
Joachim Benet, Séverine Depoilly
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 ...
Reconfigurations théoriques et nouvelles pratiques
Paul Cary, Nadia Garnoussi
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.
Autopsie d'une discipline
Jean-Louis Georget
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?
Comment les Français ont-ils vécu le premier confinement ?
Patrick Peretti-Watel
Live on to the holidays. Tourism and popular songs.
Tourisme et chansons
Olivier Lazzarotti
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.
Rozenn Le Berre
