Since the comparative perspective is -Durkheim, it was stressed in time — at the heart of the sociological approach, the works that come under this banner spontaneously attract the attention of sociologists. And this attention is often disappointed because, by way of comparison, we often just juxtap...

Digital in the broad sense (computing, networks, media, internet) has invaded all human activities, from the most personal to the most collective, and has profoundly changed our relationship to others, space, time. This reference book presents the theoretical background and key concepts and a critic...

since the process of establishing nation states in Europe, mutual relations have been intertwined and delineated around the complex area of political and cultural boundaries that cannot overlap (Fiamingo and arrives 2009). The development of national identity has thus built the categories of insider...

Desserts, Steps and Oceans, the social construction of the void since autumn 2019, the team “Writing the History of the Pacific Expiration Centre (CEP)”, which brings together around fifteen researchers in history, art history, geography, sociology, literature and anthropology, is organising a semin...

Contract; B03158; Analyses and methods for sustainable agricultural and rural development Dissemination of the document: INRA Rural Economy and Sociology Unit 4 Allée Adolphe Bobierre CS 61103 35011 Rennes cedex (FRA) Despite efforts, environmental regulations concerning agriculture, in particular t...

Working document for the AFD (Agence Française de Développement) After a first phase devoted to international and regional evaluations, we focus in this report on presenting a selective overview of national surveys. The focus here will be on comparing methods: are they different along the developmen...

This article proposes a model analysis of voting practices and electoral struggles based on the sociology of Norbert Elias configurations. Initially drawn up to report on the elections by way of census vote in France de la Monarchie in July, this model was enriched and built in such a way as to be a...

In countries and internationally, it has become common practice to use indicators to set quantified targets and assess the evolution of public policy and administrative functioning. Social science research, which deals with the development of performance indicators, is abundant and is part of a vari...

opinion mining is becoming a real industry, just as strategic as the opinion polls. The promises made are impressive: the computing power of the IT tools would make it possible to monitor all changes in opinion on the web in real time, whatever the volume. More importantly, language processing capab...

Draelants, Hugues and Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin (2009). ‘Displaying her titles of school nobility? strategies for self-presentation of national and international pupils in the major schools of France’, Notes -Documents, 2009-05, Paris, OSC, Sciences Po/CNRS. This article deals with the self-presentat...

This thesis seeks to question the challenges and modalities of building a political majority in Russia from the 2000s, after a decade marked by the weakness of the central executive and the fragmentation of political supply. Created in 2001 to support Vladimir Putin, the situation of the united Russ...

[Résumé de l'ouvrage] Cette nouvelle édition propose une présentation, entièrement revue et augmentée, des connaissances disponibles en science politique. Unique manuel collectif en langue française, mobilisant l’expertise de plus de 80 auteurs, il réunit les meilleurs spécialistes des nombreux thèm...

Without being, strictly speaking, a blind point in science studies (philosophy, history and sociology of science), it must be acknowledged that experimentation in the humanities and social sciences has not, to date, been the focal point for multiple investigations undertaken by groups of researchers...

Gisele Sapiro’s interview on Pierre Bourdieu belongs to a set of texts to mark the 10th anniversary of Pierre Bourdieu’s death in 2012. The current director of the Centre de Sociologie Europeenne (CSE), the Centre Europeen de Sociologie et de Science Politique de la Sorbonne (CESSP), presents a wide...

The economic status and development history of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) in China determine the inevitability of becoming a research hotspot and lead to the dispersion, complexity, and accumulation of academic research about the region. After 40 years since Reform and Open...

How is collective action organised? How do actors cooperate? Social science research has provided a wide variety of answers to these questions. On the basis of the concept of instrumentation, Charlotte Halpern, Pierre Lascoumes and Patrick Le Galès proposed to focus attention on the specific aspects...

International audience This article examines gender inequalities in popular music booking in the venues of Berlin and Paris. There are less women artists on stage than men, but why is this phenomenon more pronounced in the French capital? The article suggests that the inequalities between artists ca...

In all societies, the transition to adulthood is accompanied by more or less formalised rites. In Western societies, for example, secondary examinations precede the exit of adolescence and mark the entry into the world of autonomy. Cécile Van de Velde studied this passage in four European countries....

for political sociology, the concept of identity covers a variety of meanings and approaches, if not contradictory. Political identities can be defined as stories that give everyone the opportunity to define themselves in relation to others and to characterise relations between them and a group. In...

The paper aims at evaluating the place of sociology in Central and East European societies after the World War ii, basing itself on a comparative research into the discipline’s institutionalization. It uses a set of four indicators to describe sociology’s institutional progress in countries of the S...

Although they appear, first of all, to be radically different, Quebec and Israeli societies have astonishing similarities as regards the place of the national language in the construction of identity. The same applies to the language policies put in place by the various Israeli and Quebec government...

Our doctoral research is to identify and then compare the impact of national institutional frameworks on the use of temporary employment by temporary agencies and its translation into the quality of temporary employment, by means of a comparative analysis of France-Québec. This article sets out the...

Collective work under the leadership of Thomas Kirszbaum This introduction to a collective book aims to shed light on the exhaustion of the myth of ‘republican’ equality, which appears to be less and less capable of fulfilling its role as a mobilising myth in city politics. Continuing a series of Ih...