Catherine Monnot, Small girls of today. The learning of femininity, Al Mutations, n° 251 Otherwise, 2009 What does it mean to “be a girl” in our western societies contemporary ? How do you learn to become a girl and which girl should it exactly be ? These are the questions that Catherine Monnot in Little […]
individualization and the conquest of the tools of communications by the 12-22 years
What are the roles played in the conquest of the autonomy of adolescents and young adults (12-22 years) the mobile phone, the internet, electronic communication, instant messaging ? This is the question that arises Olivier Martin in an article in the journal Networks , 2007 (n°145-146, vol 6/7, p 335-366) ” the conquest of The […]
How do the smoking, the poor justify their smoking ?
Do you-are you ever asked, you are not a smoker, why all the addicts of the cigarette, continued despite the increase in the price of sale thereof, to risk their lives, as clearly stated in the slogan on the packet “Smoking kills” or even significantly ease the wallet. Yes, me, non-smoker, I tell myself that […]
History of madness in the classical age
Michel Foucault, History of madness in the classical age, Al Tel Gallimard, 1972 Imposing a book, more than 660 pages in the pagination of Gallimard, for which I offer you a place to start. Foucault describes a major reversal in the last years of the Fifteenth century : the substitution of the theme of madness […]
Geophagia to Château-Rouge
Giovanna Pessoa, ” The taste of the clay. The geophagia of african women in the district of Château Rouge (survey) “, Land and work, n°9, 2005/2 Kaolin is a substance made of clay, white in color, which occupies a special place in the grocery store. It is the strangeness that surrounds him, that has attracted […]
The sex ratio in Vietnam are they rising?
Danièle Bélanger, Khuat Thi Hai Oanh, Liu Jianye, Le Thanh Thuy, Pham Viet Than, ” are sex ratios at birth increasing in Vietnam ? “, Population, Volume 58 2003/2 In several large Asian countries, rising sometimes high of the sex ratio (the sex ratio at birth is the ratio between the live births of male […]
The belief in the family of Emile Durkheim
“Father and head of the family, this scholar was intended to be as by tenderness instinctive conviction sociological. The family may have been his subject of study and its course of choice .He believed in its necessity and its charitable intimate. He feared anything that could disrupt or weaken it. He saw it, the household […]
the habitus, as a system of explanation universal?
An extract a little scathing of an article by Claude Grignon, ” investigations on the consumption and the sociology of taste “, in the economic Review, 1988, n° 1, pp. 15-32. Claude Grignon from a questioning relative relative to the use of the expression “style of diet or style of life,” lays out a critique […]
The learning gendered body in encyclopaedias for children
“Once there was the body…The biological construction of the body in encyclopaedias for children,” Christine Detrez, Sociétés contemporary, 2005 Many works have shown how literature for children, from the youngest age, has a gendered division of roles : the situations reserved for the father or the mother are usually differentiated, as well as the activities […]
The support of women to administrative tasks
Yasmine Siblot, ” I am the secretary of the family ! “The support of women in the administrative tasks between subordination and resource, Geneses, 2006 An article very stimulating Yasmine Siblot, which complements the analysis of Olivier Schwartz, Richard Hoggart and Bernard Lahire on the reports of female and male writing tasks of the home. […]