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/Does-France-Still-Have-a-Class https://booksandideas.net/Does-France-Still-Have-a-Class 2014-03-03T09:17:20Z text/html en Olivier Schwartz Society inequalities social classes stratification Institut du monde contemporain <p>Enlargement of the sphere of social disadvantage, conversion of some of the higher social categories to a culture of measuring performance, and opposition in some low-income categories to policies that are too focused on the poorest ones; in Olivier Schwartz's view, those are three of the main factors that make for difficulties in reconstructing a city of fellow creatures. In this picture, France is both less and more a class society than it was forty years ago.</p> 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>