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Through the implementation in French schools of a renewed moral and civic education program starting in 2015, the book examines the multiple conditions - political, institutional, organizational and intellectual - governing the education of the citizen, and explores its possibilities.

Half-way between the textbook and the collection of case studies, this book takes readers behind the scenes of the sociological analysis of religion. Through eleven original contributions, it demonstrates how sociologists can engage with religious matters and contribute through them to a better understanding of society.

Building on an innovative reading of D.Hume's Treaty On Human Nature, this work revisits the way the concept of self is approached, by considering it neither as a thing nor a being, but as a simple representation that originates in our emotional lives.

Dedicated to the work of Gregory Bateson and the epistemological controversies that plagued anthropology in the 1930s, this book reconstructs the classic debates in the field from the perspective of Bateson's heterodox position. In so doing, the book aims to contribute to contemporary debates on social interaction and cognition.

This book, deals with what sociology owes to the contents of social action, drawing on a series of case-studies from the 70ies on. Their gathering into the term « environment paves the way to their aknowledgement as plain agents of social link.

Often understood as an intimate bodily fluid, human milk is also a political, medical, and legal object. From the late nineteenth century to the present, this book offers an original history of the circulation of human milk in France outside direct breastfeeding, and of the systems that have shaped its collection, preservation, and redistribution.

This book offers an in-depth exploration of the American model of public expertise production, through the emblematic case of health insurance reform. It highlights the central role played by non-governmental experts in the making of U.S. public policy.

This book analyzes how sound facilitates the immersion of readers and listeners into fictional worlds, when Victorian authors textualize soundscapes onto the page, and when these are sonified onto the air through their radio adaptation by Radio France.