How much would a 100 carat diamond cost? $/b> USD – Final Auction Price This massive stone however is quite the rare find and only five “perfect” diamonds over 100 carats have sold at auction in the past 25 years(Sotheby’s sold a 24.78-carat emerald-cut pink stone for $46M in 2010). How much do diamonds sell […]
Does judging art have objective criteria?
Does judging art have objective criteria? One of the objective criteria as to what makes art is that all art requires an artist, and art piece, and an audience. The artist makes the art piece, which is then experienced by the audience. These three entities could all share in the same object. How do you […]
The arrival of a child increases the inequality of the distribution of household tasks
If we know that the division of household tasks is unfair, how even the statements of intentions are egalitarian, it is interesting to know how changing the distribution of tasks with the arrival of the first child. Without too many surprises, the latest issue of People and Companies in November 2009, we learned that the […]
The graph of the month, the INED
In 2007 and 2008, the INED had the ambition to offer each month, a graph illustrating an original data relating to the population. Highlight a graph, explain in clear terms the method of construction and its principles of reading, was a very laudable and useful. It is a shame that the INED (Institut National d’etudes […]
sociological Object invisible ?
An article of the French Journal of Sociology deals with a sociological object, which was belatedly set up as such. That is the fact that an object acquires a social visibility? How such or such a phenomenon becomes an object of inquiry? Pierre Merle Bertrand and the Beautiful in ” Alcohol and alcoholism in the […]
breast-feed, standard family, standard scholarly
Sévérine Gojard, ” nursing, a social norm “, Spiral, 2003/3, N°27 The study of statistics shows that the rate of breastfeeding, as well as the duration of breastfeeding or weaning, vary according to socio-demographic characteristics of mothers. Similarly, the analysis of the statements by the women on the breastfeeding – in interview situations face-to-face – […]
” Mr. abbot, is this allowed ? “
Exit, voice, or loyalty1 About Mr. abbot, a short film by Blandine Lenoir featuring letters to the abbot Viollet, founder of the Association of Christian Marriage. The abbot Viollet took the initiative to make the speech clerical more clear and accessible to christians, he created to this end the Association of Christian Marriage, which publishes […]
10th Anniversary of Pierre Bourdieu
Source: GESTIO SCIRE OMNIA. By Javier Rujas (23/01/2012). Today marks ten years of the death of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002). Tomb of Pierre Bourdieu in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. Photo: J. Rujas . In the weeks since, its happening in France, the tributes and special dedicated to the figure of Pierre Bourdieu within […]
a 12-men without mercy. “A reasonable doubt”
When a movie, apart from fulfilling its primary function to entertain, this is master a real problem of a social nature —the one we are interested in this weblog—, the contest of the critical ex-post beyond the merely movie buff and adds a series of analyses and reflections on dilemmas that are at the very […]
How much does the average Thanksgiving turkey cost?
How much does the average Thanksgiving turkey cost? The centerpiece on most Thanksgiving tables – the turkey – costs less than last year, at $19.39 for a 16-pound bird. That’s roughly $1.21 per pound, down 7% from last year. The survey results show that retail turkey prices are the lowest since 2010. How much is […]