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...

The social network can be regarded as a technical device in that it combines both technical agreements for the production of content or the construction of new forms of sociality, and social agreements which enable users to leave their footprint on the social network in question and extract contextu...

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An overview of the real historical and sociological value of housing problems in French society. These include changes in ways of living, architecture and habitat; changes in public and private stakeholder systems; the relationship between housing, work and mobility; socio-political issues related t...

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...

This article offers a counter foot to reading Siméon Prosper Hardy’s manuscripts (1729-1806), questioning those of his contemporary, the vitrier Jacques Louis Ménétra (1738-1812). Perhaps crossed on St. Jacques Street or Saint-Cloud, Ménétra and Hardy shared similar times, spaces and concerns, altho...

This article argues that a queer temporality emerged during the era of Soviet Stagnation: the Stalinist past was unspeakable and the future postponed or foreclosed. In response to the limited horizon of “developed socialism” – the loss of narrative coherence and futurity, the never‑to‑arrive communi...

International audience Comment internet modifie-t-il nos façons de se rencontrer, de travailler, de militer, de consommer ou de se cultiver ? Des questions devenues centrales, tant les technologies internet sont aujourd’hui intimement liées à nos existences. Le présent ouvrage fait la synthèse...

It fought in Maurs on 10 July 1910, a Sunday, following two banquets, one of which aimed to celebrate the election of the new MEP, one fought in Maurs. The village still exists. It is located in the Cantal, 40 kilometres from Aurillac, at the edge of the Lot. It is accessed by the Nationale 122 and,...

This communication is based on a monograph of a small Breton municipality (around 300 inhabitants) isolated and outside the influence of the hubs according to the urban zoning 2010 of INSEE. This municipality is also located in an inaccessible living area (according to the indicator of average time...

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‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe modern tennis is a good indicator of the advent of a leisure society in the 19th century. In order to identify this change, it is necessary to jointly identify the main features of the social organisation and the main representations of the body that make it meaningful. The...

Your thesis, produced at the Normal Higher School under the leadership of Nicolas Renahy and Sibylle Gollac, is entitled: “An inter-knowledge economy. Local trade and affiliations in a peri-urban town from western France from the interwar to the present day”. What interested you in this topic? The s...

Why do people post news on Facebook? What does a post mean compared to other forms ofexpression? And how does this activity contribute to media appropriation? This research focuses on sharing news, meaning an online interaction which uses information. This activity seems to be the social solution to...

In the often experienced or interrupted trajectories of women artists, family, marital or love relationships are equally important and ambiguous. It is the effects of these societies in terms of career, reception of works and artistic recognition that they are interested in. Partner of, daughter of,...

this article proposes to understand the societies under construction in the peri-urban non-buildings (EPNB) areas on the basis of a problematical interpretation grid in terms of cross-public and privatisation processes. After posing the current challenges of these spaces, which are morphologically r...

In 1859, the catch of Saïgon by the French gives in the circles of the trade of France the hope of competing with the British colony of Singapore in Extreme East. Étienne Denis, fully-licensed captain of Bordeaux, sends his sons to Cochinchina to poll the potentialities of this new commercial skylin...

. This article raises the problem of the production of memory and the perception of changes in urban spaces, public societies and urban culture in Porto Alegre in the 1970s and through Nilo Ruschel’s urban chronology.

This paper approaches the way Internet uses shape the accessibility to social resources in a small rural community (around 300 residents) in Brittany (west of France). By questioning inhabitants about their life path (professional path, residential trajectory, etc.), their digital practices and thei...

territorial sociology seeks to reflect on the relationship between social actors and space, places and territories. It proposes reading grids that go beyond the simple field of the monograph to enable comparative reflection to be launched. In contemporary non-metropolitan South Africa, several group...

We propose a reflection on the digital tools that give readers opportunities to share information, thus creating new spaces for discursivization. To illustrate our thinking, we chose multi-semiotic discursive materialities collected on the sites Le Nouvel Observateur, Radio France Internationale, Fo...

MRT Ministry of Culture This research very freely explores the articulation between environments and cultures and mobilises collaboration with various Brazilian teams. How do urban environments express shared forms of sensitivity and ways of being together? How do they renew ways of co-existence in...