mathematics, seen as a parangon of pure sciences, often give the image of science built in poor technological environments; however, they have developed by forging powerful material and symbolic tools for themselves (or by exploiting them). Mathematics teaching is generally more in line with the ima...

RÉSUMÉ : Cet article s’intéresse à la pauvreté et aux inégalités de revenus dans la Chine urbaine à travers l’analyse de données récentes recueillies lors d’enquêtes conduites dans quatre des plus grandes villes chinoises(1). S’appuyant sur des mesures quantitatives telles que des indices de pauvret...

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...

This manuscript studies several problems of constrained classification. In this frameworks of classification our goal is to construct an algorithm which performs as good as the best classifier that obeys some desired property. Plug-in type classifiers are well suited to achieve this goal. Interestin...

, which is different from other contemporary forms of domesticity, elitarian domesticity, serving particularly wealthy families, is a privileged place to study the effects of gender diversity in the context of social confrontation in permanent domestic work. It requires employees to be acculturated...

National audience Three tracks are invested in this thematic section: — The first is to grasp the symbolic dimension of the centre of work. To what extent does the labour movement provide grammar for collective action? To what extent does collective action in the 68s involve defining itself in parti...

The growth of immigration flows in Canada leads to a diversification of the Canadian population and increases the need to adapt the services offered in the reception of native speakers. In Quebec, childhood and adolescence, it is often via the Reception and Support Services for Francisation (SASAF),...

While questioning the post-racial trend towards the deseculation of racism through the proliferation of minority experiences, the article proposes to analyse, from a critical theory perspective, how the ‘racial eliminativism’ underlying post-racial projects has crystallised into particular forms of...

Jérôme Guérin’s book focuses on the social conditions of classroom learning, and in particular the effects of pupil interactions on this learning. Prefaced by Brigitte Albero and posted by Marc Durand, it is organised in three parts: the first one sets out the subject, the theoretical framework and...

In the context of the colony of French Guiana from 1830 to 1910, the relationship established between the colonial power and political actors impacted the difficult evolution of this territory towards the integration into the French nation. In August 1848, slavery was abolished and the newly freed b...

Lawyers are very present in Quebec society, but historiography is barely beginning to give them a careful look. The author wanted to contribute to a better understanding of their role and place in the society and elite of the show. Two main proposals emerge from its analyses: a diversity of interest...

The index problem is to calculate the index of an elliptic operator in topological terms. This problem was solved by M. Atiyah and I. Singer in 1963 in "The index of elliptic operators on compact manifolds". Few years later, these authors have given a new proof in "The index of elliptic operators I"...

The importance of the educational/educational dimension in shaping today’s societies, and more specifically in shaping contemporary social inequalities, has been one of the main aims of sociology. Against this background, this article analyses, on the basis of the results of a recent survey of a rep...

The surveys have consistently affirmed it for fifty years, young people are the most sporting age group. While sports associations remain the bedrock of youth practices and play an important role in socialising, juvenile practices are autonomous from clubs or federations. Trackers, skators, parkours...

the research focused on the use of genuine games in a school setting (high school) and its integration into a didactic approach. The background to this reflection is the understanding by students of Social Questions Vives (QSV) and in particular of the concept of foresight, which is now integrated i...

Paul Pasquali operates in his book an ethnographic of social mobility, based on a case study of the crossing of social borders: the experience of social displacement by beneficiaries of the ‘social openness’ policies of higher education ‘elite tracks’. More specifically, its survey is based on an ex...

, relying mainly on feminist theories, we will question the construction of alterity and identity from novel Moi, Tituba, Sorcian... Black of Salem, Maryse Condé. The project of this author is to give a voice back to Tituba, a real historical character about which there is almost no information. We...

in the 1920s, when the Parisian suburbs was fully extended and the myth of the red suburbs emerged, a jésuite, the P. Lhande travelled through the ‘area’, fortifications, large plots, and a series of works with the impact of Le Christ in the suburbs, La Croix sur les Fortives or Le God that moved. T...

by looking at the differentiation processes that could characterise metropolitan and regional public action, it is difficult for young people to avoid questioning the challenges of democracy. However, the approach is complicated to take, not least because of the multiplicity of interpretations it su...

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[This abstract can be sent in English] The history of the European trade union movement of the last century has been marked in particular by a shift, which is more or less slow between countries, from a low dominant mode of activity to class collective action, towards a position of intervention and...

The author returns to the long-term social and political ties between the left and the popular classes

The study of the integration and professional socialisation of junior teachers in colleges and high schools reveals very mixed situations. In order to grasp this diversity, it is essential to analyse the singularity of the pathways, the successive reorganisations of practice and the relationship to...

Developments of the types of dwellings between the two wars of 1870 and 1914, their production and design (HBM specific programme), the rules for the distribution of dwellings and associated rooms according to whether they are intended for popular classes or for bourgeoisie. In particular, the statu...

using a wide range of new data not yet explored on each constituency in 17 European countries, this long-term comparative analysis describes the territoriality of voter turnout and voting for political parties, as well as their evolution, since the mid-nineteenth century, from highly territorialised...