Lèpre is a particular disease in the Middle Ages, the representations of which vary between curse and benection, sacer and Sanctus, avers and setbacks in the same room that Durkheim referred to as ‘sacred’. Religious constructions, these ambivalent images have an impact on behaviour towards the inju...

International audience ABSTRACTGeographic knowledge has always proved its value as an instrument underlying reasoning in order to define effective solutions for the management of territories . In many domains, such as urban and environmental planning, it is essential to start processes of analysis a...

National audience This intervention presents the method of analysis and the results of research into the socio-economic determinants of COVID-19 hospital and death rates, as well as the excess mortality observed in 2020 compared to previous years. It is based on a regional approach to these issues t...

Tento text analyzuje faktory a charakteristiky rodinnej politiky, politiky, ktorá je súčasťou „politického umenia“. S týmto zámerom zdôrazňuje vývoj v sociológii rodiny a rozdiely v prírode medzi rodinnou politikou a sociálnou politikou. Zdôrazňuje potrebu zohľadniť pojmy subsidiarita a solidarita m...

The presence of cross-border urban spots is a sociological event on Latin American borders. These agglomerations are the product of the activation of capital, goods and people flows through them, and the formation of cross-border corridors and regions. Building on a recreation of some previous theor...

The Médéric Alzheimer Foundation, in order to support young researchers in the humanities and social sciences or in public health who have chosen to dedicate their doctoral thesis to Alzheimer’s disease and related diseases, will in 2018 award four doctoral grants worth EUR 10 000 each. These one-ye...

Our thesis focuses on crafts and rural trade between 1890 and 1960, a period corresponding to the peak and decline of these lines of businesses. As such, the working life of several families of small entrepreneurs has been studied: the framework of the small family business managed by a couple suppo...

‘pbLes ‘bbrecherches sur la Maternité’/bb incorporated feminist criticisms about ‘alienating bbMaternity’/bb in the 1970s and now revisited it in the light of ‘gender’ and social constructions. Having personal and intimate experience, maternity is nevertheless “subject to cultural, social, economic...

This paper explores the relationship between mobility strategies and social networks of migrant women from Maghreb in Italy

this book questions the handling of scales in the humanities and social sciences (geography, anthropology, sociology and demography) and grasps the methodological innovations offered by multidisciplinarity. It presents several cases of studies showing the value of sharing common scales in multidisci...

International audience While recent decades have seen considerable research on cohabitation without marriage, the study of marriage without cohabitation has not fared as well. Prior work on the latter has emphasized the importance of occupational stratification, but ignored the social context around...

, which appeared in 1855, was then defined as ‘the natural and social history of the human species’. Demography tells us about the population of a given territory. The aim of this book is to present the main achievements, tools and laws of demography and to introduce population changes to the major...

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I would have supported the lockdown better if we had one room each [...]. For me, homelessness is the worst of everything. A woman, 27 years old, in a couple, mother of an infant Face who suddenly ordered to stay at home, people had to concentrate in their homes a number of activities (work, leisure...

what is difficult is to telework with a child at home. My partner continues to work outside and cannot help me. It is difficult to manage everything alone! Women, 38 years old, professor of English in Auvergne Rhône-Alpes The activity of studies in the BTP is not stopped. Modern means of teleworking...

Raquel Rolnik, Brazilian urbanist, is a major intellectual figure of social movements for housing. Formed at the USP (University of São Paulo) in the 1970s when the urban social movement developed, she became a member of the National Movement for Urban Reform (MNRU) and one of the drafters of the ur...

International audience What conclusions can be drawn from currently available statistical data on the entry into working life of young disabled graduates ? The Génération 2004 Survey (Céreq, 2007, 2009) shows relatively different academic backgrounds and professional activities for these individuals...

March 2011 disasters in the east of Honshu provoked a high number of internal migrations and international departures from foreigners living in Japan and not only in the Tohoku region. The country did not ignore the effects of earthquakes on the launching of numerous migrations being therefore accom...

Since the outbreak began, we are collectively caught in a double avalanche: an uninterrupted flow of figures (daily counting of deaths, attempts to measure excess mortality due to COVID-19, projections and estimates of pandemic developments by various models, development of indicators to understand...

The so-called sanctuary cities are currently the main source of opposition to federal anti-immigrant policies in the United States. The central argument of this cross-case study is that the sanctuary category brings together a set of informal laws, policies and practices of different nature, with di...

The present investigation was designed to identify whether Mexican migration experience to the United States can be a facilitator for drug use. A non-probabilistic sample surveyed 567 migrants returning over the age of 18 in Tijuana, Nogales and Ciudad Juárez, most of them male at an average age of...