What is silhouette photography? Silhouette photography is a wonderful way to convey drama, mystery, emotion and mood in a picture. A silhouette is defined as a view of an object or a scene consisting of the outline and a featureless interior, with the silhouetted object usually being black. How do you make a silhouette effect? […]
What is social protest in art?
What is social protest in art? Protest art is the creative works produced by activists and social movements. Social movements produce such works as the signs, banners, posters, and other printed materials used to convey a particular cause or message. Often, such art is used as part of demonstrations or acts of civil disobedience. What […]
How is music related to culture?
How is music related to culture? It teaches us about language. Some of the first communication we give and receive in life is through music. Music provides an entertaining form of repetition that is so conducive to memory and it’s a key part of growing our cultural identity. What does culture mean in music? Culture […]
Cashier and after ?
Mathias Waelli, Cashier… and after ?. A survey among the workers in the large distribution, Puf, Coll ” knowledge Sharing “, 2009 The work of Mathias Waelli could offer a perfect example in the last book of Jean Peneff, The taste of observation. Understanding and practicing participant observation in the social sciences1. Indeed, it is […]
Sociology a writing workshop
A literary society. Sociology a writing workshop, Frédéric Chateigner, éditions du Croquant, September 2008 The present book is a monograph, a writing workshop for adults of a large provincial town. The survey was conducted by participant observation in the open, on the basis of two evenings per week, between December 2003 and June 2004. The […]
Small girls of today. The learning of femininity
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 […]