Books & ideas

Social sciences in the face of disorder

Marielle Debos — 2022-01-06T13:35:31Z

How can social sciences think through the constitutive disorder of a society? When groups marked by “bad reputation” refuse to be an object of knowledge, how can we write about them? This is the challenge presented to researchers by the Tubu of Chad.

Of Wolves and Men

Chloé Mondémé — 2017-11-09T08:00:00Z

Should our relationships with animals be more diplomatic? This is what Baptiste Morizot suggests as he uses the ‘return of the Wolf' as an opportunity for a philosophical reflection. As if to better implicitly reaffirm man's domineering position?

Class-based Healthcare

Nadège Vezinat — 2017-04-13T07:00:00Z

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.

The French Social Welfare Model, as Seen from the Polders

Antoine Bevort — 2011-01-26T09:22:49Z

For the Dutch, the French social model seems particularly generous. However, no real comparison is possible if the facts are taken out of context. The understanding of the Dutch proverb ‘To live like God in France' changes somewhat when we consider Antoine Bevort's investigation of the differences between social relations in France and in the Netherlands.

Can We Trust the “Society of Distrust”?

Éloi Laurent — 2009-04-16T13:32:25Z

Confidence and trust have flown away: such seems to be the inevitable conclusion during these times of economic stagnation and collapsing banking system. It has thus become urgent to define more clearly the boundaries of that blurred and elusive notion, which is what Éloi Laurent proposes here in a tightly-reasoned criticism of Yann Algan and Pierre Cahuc's The Society of Distrust.