Which element of a story is determined by the narrator or author? Point of view What are the 3 types of narration? In a moment, we’ll work through three types of narration: first person, second person, and third person. Each serves its own purpose. But, before we enjoy some examples of narration, it’s important to […]
The cultural practices of the French in the digital age
Since the early 1970s, the ministry of Culture and Communication regularly carries out a survey on the cultural practices of the French. It is within the framework of a mission of knowledge of the public of the culture, which was entrusted to the research department of the Ministry of cultural affairs at its creation, that […]
Deciphering the French company
Decipher the French society is an essential book, which provides a state of play advanced the state of our society. Without the fetishism of figures, the operating mechanisms of the company are described, and analyzed with a great critical sense, in the fifteen thematic sections that make up the book : on population, family, relationships […]
1.2 million children under the age of 18 years living in a blended family
The latest issue of Insee Première (October 2009) returned in a few pages on the numbers of stepfamilies. Selected excerpts… In 2006, 580000 families are stepfamilies in France, 7.7% of families with at least one minor child. In blended families, the woman is often older than the man: this is the case one out of […]
Pierre Bourdieu : the body as signifier of social
The happiness and its variation
How to investigate sexuality ?
To complement our note of the reading on the Sociology of sexuality of Michel Bozon, we propose to return, from the companion site of the book Survey on sexuality in France. Practices, gender and health Nathalie Bajos and Michel Bozon in, (Discovery, 2006), on the conditions in which it is conducting a survey on sexuality. […]
What are the families like in 2008 ?
In 2007, the women who have put a child in the world had an average 29.9 years old. “The trend observed over the past thirty years to have her children always later continues,” notes the demographer Gilles Pison in Population and societies (” The Population of France in 2007 “, march 2008, no. 443). In […]
The release by Tupperware
The meetings Tupperware are they a means to communicate ideas and practices of feminists ? This has been discovered Catherine Achin and Delphine Naudier in their article ” liberation by Tupperware ? Dissemination of the ideas and practices of feminists in new spaces of sociability of women “, Clio, n°29, 2009, by conducting a survey […]
Who built the Golden Gate Bridge built?
Who built the Golden Gate Bridge built? Joseph StraussCharles Alton EllisIrving Morrow Did immigrants build the Golden Gate Bridge? Building Bridges, Not Walls. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge, both completed during the Great Depression, were designed by immigrants: Ralph Modjeski, a Polish immigrant, was chief engineer on the Bay Bridge. […]