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/Two-Centuries-of-Alternation-1 https://booksandideas.net/Two-Centuries-of-Alternation-1 2025-12-18T10:48:00Z text/html en Michel Offerlé Politics History statistics social classes conflict vote bourgeoisie Cairn.info <p>Julia Cagé and Thomas Piketty's economic history of political conflict in France is a defense of bipartition: The Left-Right divide, which is the foundation of our democracy, has enabled social progress. We must therefore work to restore it.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Ecology-A-class-struggle https://booksandideas.net/Ecology-A-class-struggle 2025-11-11T08:30:00Z text/html en Mathieu Vigour Politics environmentalism social classes Cairn.info <p>Ecological politics have struggled to ward off environmental disaster. To impose itself as a transformative force, Jean-Baptiste Comby shows that ecological politics must become the strategic tool and compass of a genuine class struggle.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-the-Masses https://booksandideas.net/The-Power-of-the-Masses 2025-06-24T14:44:31Z text/html en Arthur Ghins Politics liberalism race nation social classes Cairn.info <p>French liberalism, which first emerged during the Restoration, focused not only on individual rights: it also shaped the history of the mass as a subjugated political entity.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Grammar-of-Modernity https://booksandideas.net/The-Grammar-of-Modernity 2024-01-18T08:30:00Z text/html en Ulysse Lojkine Philosophy property social classes Kantianism Marx Cairn.info <p>The latest book by Catherine Colliot-Thèlène, who died in 2022, crowns a vast body of work in the field of political philosophy. She drew inspiration from a meticulous and enlightening reinterpretation of the classics in order to understand the contemporary world.</p> https://booksandideas.net/European-Classes-4028 https://booksandideas.net/European-Classes-4028 2018-05-03T07:00:00Z text/html en Milan Bouchet-Valat Society Europe social classes Florence Gould Foundation transnational <p>Three sociologists analyse the European social structure, looking at the implications of the economic and political integration that has taken shape on the continent. Their approach provides new opportunities for the study of inequalities.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Bikini-Strategy https://booksandideas.net/The-Bikini-Strategy 2018-03-29T07:00:00Z text/html en Jennifer Bidet Society religion feminism Algeria sexuality social classes Institut français <p>Last summer, bikini-wearing women on Algerian beaches were a hot topic in the French news. Presented for a while as a feminist revolt against the rise of Islam, this issue is above all symptomatic of the gender relations, but also the class and race relations, structuring Algerian society.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Working-Classes-in-Contemporary-France https://booksandideas.net/The-Working-Classes-in-Contemporary-France 2017-10-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Pierre Gilbert Society social classes popular culture working class Florence Gould Foundation <p>A coauthored volume offers a panoramic overview of working classes in contemporary France. These sociologists offer a theoretical clarification of the concept and show its relevance for describing this social group and its historical transformations.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Social-Inequalities-in-the-Post-Brexit-Era https://booksandideas.net/Social-Inequalities-in-the-Post-Brexit-Era 2017-09-04T07:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Duvoux Society inequalities Video Interviews sociology social classes Brexit Donald Trump <p>A prominent sociologist of social class in contemporary Europe and co-director of the <span class="caps">LSE</span>'s international inequalities institute, Mike Savage evokes his researches on social class in the <span class="caps">UK</span>. Outlining the importance of class-based inequalities and their new forms, from both a material and symbolic standpoint, he discusses why they are so critical to understand the Brexit and Donald Trump's election.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Class-based-Healthcare https://booksandideas.net/Class-based-Healthcare 2017-04-13T07:00:00Z text/html en Nadège Vezinat Society inequalities health social classes hospital social dialogue Florence Gould Foundation <p>Far from lessening inequality between social groups in France, the organisation of the healthcare system and the practices of healthcare professionals actually serve to increase disparity. The sociology of social relations shows that the health system is not used or organised in the same way depending on the social class to which patients belong.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Studying-Social-Class-Legacy-Renewal https://booksandideas.net/Studying-Social-Class-Legacy-Renewal 2016-07-18T09:00:00Z text/html en Cristelle Terroni Society France Great Britain Philosophy History inequalities India social classes social mobility social reproduction <p>A selection of five essays and reviews recently published in <i>Books&Ideas</i> discusses the legacy and renewal of social class studies in France, Great-Britain and India.</p>