The culinary preferences of Maigret

Pierre Verdaguer, ” The politics of food in post-war II French Detective fiction “, in Weiss, Allen, Schehr, Lawrence, in, French food, 2001, pp 184-202 The chapter of the book French food presented here is very entertaining. The author enters the world of French officers in a manner somewhat unusual, since he is studying this […]

food Experiences out of the common

Recently, I was talking about the practice géophasique to Château-Rouge. The consumption of clay is a practice out of the ordinary, she is one of those foods that aren’t really, and who does the become that under the force of rituals. I found a book in English that deals mainly with this type of eating […]

Sake and social cohesion in Japan

Jane Cobbi, ” Taste of the sake, the cost of social cohesion “, in social skills at the table. Commensality and conviviality throughout the ages. Proceedings of the symposium, Rouen, publications of the university of Rouen n °178, 1992 The japanese company, if it has the characteristic of being completely exotic for us, is also […]

men among the wise-women

Philippe Charrier, ” men midwives. To the effect of segmentation ? “, Sociologies contemporaines, 2007 Discuss the masculinisation of midwifery is to ask if this trade, dramatically marked by his character, female, can be declined in the masculine without to be profoundly changed ? The article of Philippe Charrier discusses the integration of men in […]

Sociology of the PACS

Wilfried Rault, ” Between law and symbol. The social customs of the civil pact of solidarity “, French Review of sociology, 2007 In the space of thirty years, the institutional frameworks of the couple’s life have changed considerably. The model of marriage-an institution, a rite of passage naturalized and essential, meaning both access to marriage, […]

Define sociology with Simmel ?

Here is a quote from the first text of the collection following The problem of sociology. And other texts, Simmel, Georg ; Barth Fabienne, Cret Benedict (Perpetrators of parties introductory), Editions of the pike Perch, 2006, 116 pages, 13 euros The book includes three important texts by Georg Simmel: “The problem of sociology “, “How […]

Obesity and the social environment

0.6% of children of managers and higher intellectual occupations enrolled in the class of CM2 suffer from obesity compared to 6.1 % of the children of workers… Between 2002 and 2005 the inequalities facing obesity have increased. During this period, the proportion of obese children has decreased more or less important in all occupational categories, […]

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