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François Alfandari, Anaïs Bonanno, Lina Cárdenas, Saphia Doumenc, Willy Gibard, Lucas Winiarski
Enquêter sur les relations professionnelles
Investigating Industrial Relations
Méthodes, outils et pratiques
Methods, Tools, and Practices
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
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.



Martina Avanza, Sarah Mazouz, Romain Pudal
Ethnographie(s) politique(s)
Political Ethnography
Méthodes, objets et terrains
Methodology, Topics, Fieldworks
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
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.



Manuel Bächtold, Magali Fuchs-Gallezot
RDST, n°28/2023
Esprit critique et enseignement des sciences et des technologies
Critical thinking and science and technology education
In a context of strong institutional pressure to practise and develop critical thinking in the teaching of science and technology, the RDST editorial board felt it appropriate to examine research in the field of science and technology education on this subject.



Julien Rodriguez, Jean-Arnault Dérens, Benoît Goffin
Balkans
Vienne, Zagreb, Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Novi Pazar, Cetinje, Tirana, Mostar, Bihać
Odyssée, villes-portraits



Viviane Isambert-Jamati, Roger Establet
Crises de la société, crises de l'enseignement
Society crises, Teaching crises
Sociologie de l'enseignement secondaire français
Sociology of French secondary education
Bibliothèque idéale des sciences sociales



Michaël Pouteyo, Michel Chauvière
Fernand Deligny, enfant et institution
Fernand Deligny, child and institution
Pour une histoire de l'enfance en marge
A history of childhood on the margins
La croisée des chemins
While the 19th century put children in school, the first half of the 20th focused on those who didn't go. By examining the trajectory and work of Fernand Deligny (1913-1996), schoolteacher, educator and writer, this book aims to redraw this history. this philosophical investigation aims to better situate Deligny's place.



Jacques Henriot, Gilles Brougère, Bernard Perron
Sous couleur de jouer
La métaphore ludique
Playful metaphor
Bibliothèque idéale des sciences sociales
Published in 1989, Sous couleur de jouer has become a classic of French-language literature on play and games. Its approach is as much about reflecting on the idea of play as it is about criticizing thoughts that are too quick to grasp what lies at the heart of the phenomenon, that is a lusory attitude.



Virginie Hollard, Romain Meltz
Astérion, n°29/2023
A Semantic History of Politics. Studies about res publica
Pour une histoire sémantique du politique. Études sur la res publica
This feature extends the contributions of Claudia Moatti's book Res publica. Histoire romaine de la chose publique which offers another way of looking at an ancient political concept.To study the question of the relationship between language and the practice and to examine the way in which the concept of res publica has been received by posterity.



Marie Bonte
Nuits de Beyrouth
Beirut Nights
Géographie de la fête dans une ville post-conflit
Geography of celebration in a post-conflict city
Sociétés, Espaces, Temps
This book focuses on the night-time world of Beirut's bars and clubs, seeking to understand their social and political relevance in post-conflict Lebanon. It shows how nightlife in Beirut is an driving force in reshaping spaces, and the time for a possible cohabitation that transcends the assigned identities materialized by the fifteen-year civil.



Ana Dias-Chiaruttini, Joaquim Dolz
Repères, n°68/2023-2
Nouveaux objets et nouveaux contextes d'enseignement de l'oral
New objects and new contexts in the teaching of oral language
Where do we stand with the teaching of oral language? This issue of Repères, devoted to new objects and new contexts in the teaching of oral language, aims to take stock of the progress made in this area, across countries, and through design research and the analysis of teaching practices.



Chloé Gaboriaux, Cédric Passard, Annabelle Seoane
Mots. Les langages du politique, n°133/2023
La République au-delà du slogan
Invoking "the Republic", calling oneself a "Republican"... Does the term Republic still have any meaning? The texts in this issue show that the polysemy of the word is less a reflection of the evanescence of its meaning than of a polymorphous debate on the definition of citizenship in a world marked by deepening individualism.



Cédric Frétigné, Stéphanie Rubi



Xavier Pons, Sylvain Doussot



Laurent Besse
Histoire de l'éducation, n°160/2023
École et éducation populaire en France depuis la fin du XIXe siècle
School and popular education in France since the End of the 19th Century
Since the end of the 19th c., schools, especially primary schools, have been surrounded by a network of associations that complement compulsory schooling: in addition to adult classes, there are youth clubs, holiday camps, educational films and leisure activities. What influence does this have on the school?



Jérôme Heurtaux, Rachel Renault, Federico Tarragoni
Tracés, n°44/2023-1
États de crise
States of crisis
How does a crisis come into being, exist and pass? In response to these classical questions of the social sciences, this issue of Tracés takes a step aside by examining "states of crisis", i.e., the scholarly and ordinary procedures by which a given situation, in different social worlds, is qualified as "critical" and objectified as a crisis.



Vincent Chabault, Emmanuelle Lallement
Métropoles, n°33/2023
La ville marchande en temps de pandémie
The commercial city (« ville marchande ») in the time of pandemic
This issue, initiated just a few months after the French government's announcement of new restrictive measures (April 2021), proposes to examine the destabilization and redevelopment caused by the pandemic is in the retail sector, and to study its temporary or lasting consequences on urban space.



Nathalie Saudo-Welby, Jean-Jacques Lecercle
Jack and Jekyll
La dégénérescence en Grande-Bretagne 1880-1914
Degeneration in Great-Britain 1880-1914
Signes
Late nineteenth century Great-Britain was haunted by a fear of degeneration which confusedly merged concerns about morbid heredity, "racial decline" and social pathology. Degeneration discourse became the common ground shared by alarmist pseudo-scientific texts and Gothic fiction.



Sergio Sismondo, Mathias Girel
Le management fantôme de la médecine
Ghost-Managed Medicine
Les mains invisibles de Big Pharma
Big Pharma's Invisible Hands
Gouvernement en question(s)
Sismondo describes what happens within the chain from the design of the clinical trial to the diffusion of drug results, and highlights what he calls "ghost-management", which allows for a high degree of control of drug science by the pharmaceutical industry to influence doctors' prescriptions.



Michaël Pouteyo
Astérion, n°28/2023
Histoire et travail social : écriture, mythes et récits
History and social work: writing, myths and narratives



Monica Heller
Éléments d'une sociolinguistique critique
Elements of a critical sociolinguistics
Langages
This second edition updates a text which laid the foundations of the field of critical ethnographic sociolinguistics, and which has become an essential reference and important teaching tool.



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