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‘The Pyrenees: Olympic Laboratory’. Research on an innovative sports and tourism project of the 1990s
National audience This contribution shows the origin, intentions (sporting, cultural, territorial) and principles of this programme, and then briefly summarises the arrangements for organising the Pyrenees adventure Games in 1993. Following various studies in the geography or sociology of sport (BES...
Pour un outil d'analyse image des territoire urbains Pour un outil d'analyse image des territoire urbains: les formes visuelles sensibles de la ville
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La rédaction d'une histoire de vie chez les personnes âgées : fondements conceptuels, dimensionnement et proposition d'une échelle de mesure des motivations au récit de vie
International audience This article concerns a relatively unknown phenomenon in marketing that has become, however, extremely popular among older adults: legacy writing. While the writing of "ego-documents" has been the subject of many studies in gerontology, sociology and, above all, literature, re...
From the search for information to information practices
This article introduces the concept of ‘information practice’. After having defined it in relation to the concepts of ‘use’ and ‘behaviour’, we propose an analysis of its development across the various scientific fields, such as social computing, information science and the sociology of uses, which...
Explaining small-retailer patronage through social capital theory
International audience The purpose of this paper is to understand why people shop at small retailers in their community. The authors investigate the influence of consumers’ civic commitment, measured at behavioural and perceptual levels, on small-retailer patronage (SRP). Design/methodology/approach...
Wine teaching in hotel schools
How is wine produced? Given globalisation, economic policies, regional development, the french paradox and education policies, what future does this cultural capital offer, bearing in mind that food practices change status for each generation? And what about this education in the neighbouring countr...
8. On physics and physiology
In Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, written in the 1940s but about the distant future, he describes a device that plays a recording of a 3D moving image with sound. The display device is a glass cube, in which the viewer sees a human figure talking—something like a talking head on television, but...
: La politique coloniale des Pays-Bas face à la surpopulation de Java;
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Adorno v Habermas, and beyond.
for decades, Jürgen Habermas, both philosopher and sociologist, has been at the forefront of the intellectual scene in Europe and America. His works were quickly translated and gave rise to many comments, generally laudators. Many see him as one of the most important thinkers in the second half of t...
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Everyday sociability, social networks and ICTs
The impressive growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the last decade constitutes a challenge both for social studies on sociability and on ICT usage. It demands to put methodologies and sociological analysis that have mainly been developed for the study of face-to-face intera...
What the Flesh Carries. A Sociological Approach to the Emergence of Face Transplant
How has the face become an organ, object of donation and transplantation? Starting from thisquestioning, this thesis invests the environment of those who have carried facial transplantprojects, and those who have debated about them, during the years 2000 and 2010 in Franceand the United Kingdom. It...
Study days: “Towards a sociology of events” — 10-11 June 2021
See the study days programme “Towards a sociology of the event”: https://canoe.hypotheses.org/1047. These days will take place on Thursday 10 June and Friday 11 June 2021. They will take place in Sciences Po Grenoble (subject to administrative authorisations for the organisation of scientific events...
Changes, surpassing oneself, achievement and competition between narrative topics in motives about companies and work
International audience This paper is inscribed in a long-term research about social representations of work, of the management and of companies in different spheres or institutions discourses such as education, corporate communication, television (TV series such as entertainment programs), art and,...
A development and processing power in Uruguay. Proposal for creation within the framework of Territoriesnet.org, the European Union, the Mercosur Parliament and the University of the Republic: The case of Minas, Lavalleja
Is it possible to steer the concepts of development and transformation to a wide range of different sizes, with the aim and goal of developing and transforming our societies and social groups, our territories and places at local, sub-regional and regional levels? If this row can be built, is it poss...
Necrology of Michel Tibon-Cornillot, “Michel Tibon-Cornillot, the take-away philosopher”
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Playing with Frameworks: Scam and Quarrel in Videogames
International audience Playing with Frameworks: Scam and Quarrel in Videogames Abstract This investigation characterizes the framing operations, as described by Goffman, in order to accurately document the scams suffered during commercial exchanges of virtual objects within an online game. The chall...
Privately-owned buildings, re-housing, what next steps ? Professionnals and inhabitants involved in an urban renewal operation
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...
Colloquium "How can we be socio-anthropologist today? — Socio-anthropology: a critical look at the Western myth of technical progress’
The ‘3th Grenoble socio-anthropology meetings’, organised by the laboratory emc2-Laboratoire de Sociology de Grenoble under the leadership of Florent Gaudez, had this year’s guest of honour Alain Gras, founder of the Centre for Studies, Techniques, Knowledge and Practice (cetcopra — Paris 1 — Panthé...
The ‘De generatione et corruptione’ in the ‘golden century’ of medieval encyclopaedias
The encyclopaedias from 1210 to 1260 were the first works to use Aristote’s translations. In this period, knowledge of De generatione ranged from silence in Alexander Nequam and Thomas de Cantimpré to marginal use in Barthélemy l’English and highly controlled, and literal use in Arnold de Saxony, th...
For a sociological analysis of the individual reflexivity
The main purpose of this article is to present a theoretical proposal for empirical analysis of individual reflexivity. The contributions of different authors in the sociology field, which they consider to be the most relevant, by the operational tools they provide, are discussed in order to respond...
Stefan Gandler (Coordinator). Critical theory. Impossible to resign. Grips of repression and adventures of emancipation (Mexico: Autonomous University of Querétaro/Miguel Ángel Porrúa, 2016), 259 pp.
Managers, managers and professionals: identity crisis, existential crisis and ethical perspectives
This text is an analysis of the crisis in relations between managers and businesses. As a result of several interviews, he tries to analyse the ongoing crisis as a conflict of identities, raison d’être, values and purposes between managers and businesses. In the first part, he outlined the empirical...
Looking for a job when you’ve just been a doctor: adjustments between work project, transition to adult life and future-proof labour market representations
After presenting the main results of statistical surveys on the future of doctoral graduates, the article proposes to address how young doctors are looking for a job in terms of the lifecycle and through an understandable and longitudinal approach. Thanks to the double series of biographical intervi...
6th EPAL Colloquium: user path
Grenoble Alpes University, Lidilem 7-9 June 2018 The Colloquium Echange for Online Learning (EPAL), organised by Grenoble Alpes University (Lidilem), will hold its sixth edition on 7, 8 and 9 June 2018. The aim of EPAL is to question, in a systemic and multidisciplinary way (education sciences, info...