Christophe Giraud, ” Receive the tourist as a friend. The staging of the home merchant in the guest room “, Acts of Research in Social Sciences, 2007 The service relationship, which is the reception room of hosts, is a relationship market of a particular type. Such is the thesis of Christophe Giraud in his article […]
The factor and his tour
Didier Demazière, “the heart of the business factor :” his ” tour “, Ethnologie française, 2005/1, N°101 The factor, employee of The Post office which distributes the mail, is a familiar figure. Its activities touch even to the most private or intimate life, as it is to wear new, expected or unexpected, good or bad. […]
The flight in-house…as routine
François Bonnet in an article of the French Review of Sociology February 2008 ” A crime without deviance : theft internally as well as routine analysis to the thefts by employees at their workplace for their own account. He sees it as a routine listed in the asymmetrical relations, with the idea that analytically the […]
An anthropologist at the geisha
Liza C. Dalby is an anthropologist who has conducted her thesis on the geishas at the university of Stanford. She has had the immense privilege of being able to observe the world of the geishas from the inside, since it has integrated the community of Pontocho in Japan for 14 months, in 1978, under the […]
The social determinants of food
Séverine Gojard, ” feeding in infancy. Dissemination and reception of the standards of child care “, French Review of sociology, 2000, n° 3, pp. 475-512. The diet in early childhood is especially relevant to observe the dissemination and reception of discourse normative, to the extent that this type of discourse abounds on the art and […]
The crime of poison in the Middle Ages
The sociology would not be worth an hour of it though…
Pierre Bourdieu, ” Celibacy and condition paysanne “, Études rurales, 5-6, 1962, p. 109. “Sociology might not be a time penalty if it had to end only to discover the strings that are moving the individuals she observes, if she forgot that she has to deal with men when they, like puppets, play a game […]
Importance of conspicuous consumption
Thostein Veblen, Theory of the class of leisure, Al Tel, Gallimard, 1899 (1970), ” Chapter 3. The leisure ostentatious “ p 27 “To attract and retain the esteem of men, it is not enough to possess merely wealth or power : it is still necessary to highlight, because this is obviously only one will believes. […]
The suite of ideas speaks to school
“Made school” in ideas, on France Culture, on Tuesday, 26 August 2008. A show with François Dubet, which published in September 2008 a book Made of school , Patrick Rayou co-author with Dominique Gelin and Luc Ria to Become a teacher. Course and training (Armand Colin 2007), with Isabelle Danic and Julie Delalande to Investigate […]
The hippophagie in France
Sylvain Leteux, ” The hippophagie in France. The difficult acceptance of a meat shameful (archive) “, Land and work, n°9, 2005/2 In contemporary France, it is necessary to wait until 1866 for the hippophagie to be legalized. Despite this legalization, the consumption of horse remains a practice which is not developed, mainly to the working […]