The couple, the love and the money. The construction marital economic dimensions of the love relationship, a work of Caroline Henchoz (L’harmattan, coll. “Sociological issues “, 2009) “When one loves, one does not count” is the popular saying. The money is more often regarded as being incompatible with the values of the family sphere, it […]
Sociology of sexuality
Sociology of sexuality, a reprint of the book by Michel Bozon (Armand Colin, Coll ” 128 “, 2009, 2002) Undeniably, it is produced, in the last decades, a profound transformation in the sexual behaviors, in parallel to other transformations in the domain of the family and of the couple. The growth of social science research […]
parentage blended : biological origins, family and parenting
The parentage blended : biological origins, kinship and parenthood. A number of the review “family Research” (n° 4, 2007, 233 p., 21€) This issue of the annual review of Research family, funded by the UNAF, is devoted to the parentage blended. This is the fourth issue of the magazine, which may explain that the articles […]
The ethnography of economic
The ethnography of economic. A book of Caroline Dufy and Florence Weber (Discovery, al. “Repères “, 2007, 122 p.) This work complements that of Philippe Steiner presenting in the same collection the economic sociology. Thus, the economic sociology is more interested in social relations between economic agents with alternative key of reading that those of […]
The practice of art amateur
Lovers, 1996, Olivier Donnat Many clues, starting with the constant increase in applications for registration in the schools of art and music, the show, in fact, for several years, the growing interest that the French have for the artistic activities and the amateur, without any synthesis study has been conducted in France. The question, beyond […]
social class in the globalization
The social classes in the process of globalization. A book by Anne-Catherine Wagner (Discovery, al. “Benchmarks “, October 2007, 117 p.) The categories of classes, structures or social reproduction have become obsolete in the ideological context the current valuation of the fluidity and mobility ? How should we rethink the principles of analysis of social […]
The theatre lovers. A game with multiple scenes
The theatre lovers. A game on several stages. A book of Thomas Morinière (Editions du Croquant, 2007, 222 p, 22€) The theatre lovers is the result of an ethnographic survey carried out by Thomas Morinière in a village located at the outskirts of the town of Cholet, la Séguinière. This joint is the place of […]
consumption
Consumption. A book of Dominique Desjeux (Puf, coll. “What do I know ? “, 2006) The book of Dominique Desjeux provides an overview of a domain in the most classic of the social sciences, with an ambition of accessibility and simplicity that is its strength, but also some of its weaknesses : the small size […]
The order sexed. The perception of inequalities between women and men
Order sexual. The perception of inequalities between women and men. A book of Réjane Sénac-Slawinski (Puf, coll. “The social bond “, 2007, 364 p., 29€) As be sexed, we experience two universalismes contradictory, that of belonging to a community of equals in our quality of citizen, and that of the difference as a source of […]
Confidants. A structural analysis of social networks
Confidants. A structural analysis of social networks. A book by Alexis Ferrand (L’harmattan, coll. “Social logic “, 187 p., 18€) In this book, Alexis Ferrand, a specialist in the analysis of social networks, mobilizes this equipment conceptual and methodological approach to study the networks of confidence about sexuality. He has conducted work involving the structural […]