What groups were part of the British Invasion? Pop and rock groups such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Zombies, The Kinks, The Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, The Hollies, The Animals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Searchers, The Yardbirds and The Who were at the forefront of the “invasion”. What was the British […]
What did the first nations get from the fur trade?
What did the first nations get from the fur trade? First Nations people gathered furs and brought them to posts to trade for textiles, tools, guns, and other goods. This exchange of goods for other items is called the barter system. Each party would bargain to try to get the best value for the thing […]
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Alain Leger, “The social determinants of the careers of teachers” , French Review of sociology, 1981, n° 4, pp. 549-574. “The professional career of teachers is marked by a series of changes in the establishment of exercise, which can be interpreted as so many steps closer to what is, without a doubt, in their eyes, […]
Contraception and medical male dominance renewed
Nathalie Bajos, Michèle Ferrand, ” contraception, leverage, real or symbolic of male dominance ? “, Social science and Health, Vol . 22, n°3, 2004 The emergence and diffusion of medical contraception (pill, iud), represent a major phenomenon of the modernization of western societies. With the legislation of abortion in 1975, the women have truly acquired […]
a Note reading : Sociology of the self. Test of hermeneutics applied
Johann Michel, the Sociology of the self. Test of hermeneutics applied The book of Johann Michael, straddle the line between philosophy and sociology, is formed around an intellectual project : to develop a “sociology of hermeneutics” of human action, borrowing from Paul Ricoeur, certain philosophical concepts. Reworked in a sociological sense, the concepts of the […]
The great sociologists, a new manual for students
The book, published under the direction of Alain Bruno, published by Editions Ellipses, will not surprise the reader, the student or teacher familiar with the works of synthesis on the discipline. Entitled The great sociologists, it offers to present in a synthetic way the authors founders of the discipline. The economy of the book is […]
qualitative Surveys, quantitative surveys, a manual directed by Pierre Bréchon
Pierre Bréchon (ed), qualitative Surveys, quantitative surveys, PUG, 2011 Directed by Pierre Bréchon, the manual is as cryptic qualitative Surveys, quantitative surveys is a small concentrate of methods to drag-and confidently in the hands of students in the bachelor’s and master’s degree in sociology and political science. Six authors (Stéphanie Abrial, Jean-Paul Bozonnet, Pierre Bréchon, […]
The imperative of beauty-time on vacation, a construction
Christopher Granger, ” (Im)atmospheric pressure. History of the beautiful weather in holiday “, Ethnologie française, 2004/1, n°97 This is the story, between 1890 and 1980, the factory of a culture weather vacation. The taste for the beautiful fixed and intolerance of certain meteors, which are engaging in a shake-up of the mapping holiday, are deeply […]
Between maximization and activism, to recover objects of opportunity on the internet
For almost two years, we conduct a research on the users of the sites of donations of objects that are donnons.org, recupe.net and the network freecycle[1]. We ask ourselves who are the users of these sites and analyze the purposes and various modalities by which they use them[2]. The recovery of used objects is a […]
How did I become a sociologist?
In 1995, I graduated with honors from the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts (MGUKI) and received a diploma as a theater director. The childhood dream came true, I’m an aspiring actress, a graduate director, but the future was seen as if in a fog, family life was not at all combined with work […]