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.

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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.

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In contrast to the psychology-fuelled books aimed at decision-makers, this book shows the full depth of the social relationships behind the decision.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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...

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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 ...

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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?

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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

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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.

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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..

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Where is gone social justice? As inequalities are growing everywhere in the world, this is a key question. This book undertakes to answer it, using survey and qualitative data in France and in "hot" points on the globe. Starting from ordinary actors, social movements, concrete contexts, he draws the kaleidoscope of the current trials, ...

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Is self-employment the best way to balance work and family life ?. This argument has been widely used to promote business creation among women. This research aims at debunking this myth through the Mompreneurs' case.

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This book aims at reconsidering the coupling between autonomy, an undisputed ideal of modern individualistic societies, and dependency, as seen as its negative opposite.

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São Paulo, San Francisco, Rome ... Northern or Southern Metropolises have to deal more frequently with the lack of water. The 4 million inhabitants of Recife, Brazil, have been facing failures of the public network for several decades: tap water is often lacking and its quality is not assured. Residents have organized themselves in order to cope...

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Why do you use this object this way ? Why are there objects that truly belong to us and others that don't ; What do we do with them ? When, where, with or against who, why and what for ? That set of questions sums up this book : the study of our inner and proper relationship to objects in daily life.

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Comment enseigner des pratiques autodidactes ?

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