National audience. This article questions the issues of visibility and invisibility in the construction of socio-political categories. By mirroring the battle of black against racism and that of HIV/AIDS patients against the epidemic, we promote the idea that the socio-political minority groups shap...

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This thesis examines the way working class children’s practices and representations of science areconstructed. It aims to renew the approach of persistent inequalities in access to science pathwaysand careers, in which women and people from the working class and/or ethno-racial minoritiesremain larg...

How to give an account of the dialectical relationship between the density of social interactions and the building of development in a local system of action which the territory can constitute? This is the key question which our thesis tries to answer. The issues of local development are posed with...

Since 2003, more than 400 popular districts categorized as sensitive urban zones and 4 million inhabitants have become part of a program initiated by the Framework Act on Town Planning and Urban Renewal (so-called “Borloo law”). In order to achieve district transformation and social diversity, the p...

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In this work we made a systematization of the approach experience, during 2016, between groups of two institutions: a university and a teacher training institution. The purpose was to contribute to the construction of a pedagogical proposal for teacher training that incorporates knowledge built from...

Wright Career from 1893 to 1909 and the establishment of the ‘Prairie House’ movement that succeeds the Chicago School

This research explores the dialectics between science education and history of science through the study of biological classifications, focusing on plants, a biological group with multiple meanings and a major historical rectification.This study deals with the training of preservice biology and geol...

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...

This research focuses on the influences of the "Arab Spring" on the tourist discourse that we approach under two argumentative modalities: tourism advertising and tourism promotion. To deal with this issue, we have collected an iconotexual corpus (text + image) among media resources very varied, dis...

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Economic activities in socialist countries feature new objects in business history. The contributions gathered in this issue are part of this scientific news. They reveal the diversity of experiences and models, circulations and adaptations to local contexts, as well as initial hesitations when sett...

Conference at the “History of imaginaries” seminar of Prof. Dominique Kalifa (Panthéon — Sorbonne). Arnaud-Dominique Houte has been lecturer in contemporary history in Paris — Sorbonne since 2009. His research focuses on the social and cultural history of France (19th centuries), the history of the...

This article intends to study the (de) construction of living places in the Battlestar Galactica series (Sci-Fi/Sky One, 2003-2009), mobilising resources from urban planning, urban sociology and narratology. At the other end of the galaxy, the series presents people, the ‘settlers’, who see the plan...

After a very long period without publishing any line in this blog, here is the explanation for this silence... It was my job to complete my entitlement to conduct sociology research! I am pleased to announce that I will therefore publicly support her on Friday 24 November 2017 at 14 p.m. in Sciences...

Degree: Master of Arts Abstract: This study explores the little-examined dimensions of a highly influential Buddhist organization, Fo Guang Shan (佛光山), which was founded in Taiwan and established more than 200 branches on all five continents. Through ethnographic research focusing on Buddhist materi...

Ayant pour objet la ville et les processus d’urbanisation, l’urbaniste mobilise, pour remplir sa mission, des savoirs et compétences disciplinaires variés (sociologie, économie, génie civil, sciences politiques, architecture urbaine, géographie, sciences de la gestion, etc.). Né en début de deuxième...

Publishing 1st half 2017

If you read these lines, it may be because you have just sent me an email asking me for help with a duty or memory, or ask me for an interview, and I replied by asking you first to read the following... Indeed, since the publication of the book on Social Media Sociology in early 2011, I have receive...

The interactions and living together of generations aim to the sharing of public places and living spaces, on the scale of a family, a city, a social or cultural framework. But this does not prevent that there may be changes in the transmission of values and intergenerational traditions, with the in...

Ancient buildings face today normative, environmental and patrimonial issues which foster their renovation and engage a great diversity of actors. This multiplicity initiates a debate around knowledge, professional worlds and attachments which are woven around existing buildings. This thesis delves...

This study takes a microsociological look at pedestrian walking practices in the city. The aim is to reflect the different ways in which the city caters to the public space and the practical and sensitive dimensions it requires. In our view, urban mobility is a process of anchoring the passage into...