https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Reality-of-Social-Demotion https://booksandideas.net/The-Reality-of-Social-Demotion 2011-05-23T08:04:45Z text/html en Vincent Chabault Society inequalities generations social classes social demotion stratification <p>Social demotion is a concept which pervades public debate: it evokes the feeling of anxiety expressed by individuals, but it also represents a social and statistical reality which is experienced by members of the different age cohorts born since the beginning of the 1960s.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Liberty-Equality-or-Fraternity https://booksandideas.net/Liberty-Equality-or-Fraternity 2011-03-23T12:44:14Z text/html en Cécile Van de Velde Society welfare state generations family solidarity La campagne des idées <p>Liberty, equality, or fraternity between the generations — how should we think about “fair” transfers from one generation to the next? In a meticulous and bold essay, André Masson demonstrates that the French republican motto can be used as a key to the different theories that attempt to explain the ties between generations. He views his position as “upstream” of current debates about the emergence of and need for a reformulation of our public policies concerning intergenerational ties.</p>