Finally available in French, Annette Lareau's book Unequal Childhood is a major work in the American social sciences, situated at the intersection of the sociology of the family, childhood, education and social stratification. Original both in its method and its approach, it reveals the various mechanisms by which social inequalities are formed.

In a context of transformation of social relations at work, how can we investigate industrial relations? Based on original contributions by young social science researchers, this collective book offers methodological guidelines to researchers and students interested in this field of study.

What does it mean today for a researcher to work with the concept of gender? This is what the fourteen contributions brought together in this book demonstrate, from disciplines as varied as geography, history, literature, sociology, sports sciences, linguistics, social psychology, communication studies, education studies or philosophy.

This work, both a historical and sociological survey drawn from a doctoral thesis in sociology, shows how a form of excellence developed in mountaineering as a particular field of practice. the object of this investigation is to reveal how the ideologies of the English bourgeoisie who gave birth to it live on in the spirit of mountaineering.

The book addresses political ethnography in the French context. It brings together the work of scholars who have helped to shape the "ethnographical turn" in French political science. Its main contribution is to show how ethnographic methods renew the study of central and classical topics in political science.

It examines the itineraries of Algerian women who migrated to France and more specifically to Lyon, before their own country gained independence. This study traces back to a female immigration and prove that these women were full-fledged actors of their history. This dual dynamic led to the establishment of plural identities, between two countries.