In this interview, the sociologist Robert Castel, director of studies at theEhessreturns to the main concepts thanks to which he built an analysis and a story of the social question from yesterday to today. He thus re -examines the concepts of work, ownership, solidarity and evokes his relationship as a researcher with the State.
Robert Castel is a sociologist, director of studies at theEhess. He conducted a first series of research on the sociology of psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychological culture between the early 1970s and the early 1980s.
From the early 1980s, his studies turned to social interventions, social protection, transformations of social policies, labor and employment.
He then analyzes the processes of constitution of the salary company, then their crumbling in the mid -1970s and released the consequences of these dynamics on social integration and the status of the contemporary individual.
The publication of Metamorphoses of the social question In 1995 marked the culmination of this reflection on the “ wage company “And the” disaffiliation “Which characterizes the most vulnerable populations in the face of what he then calls” Social insecurity ». Its most recent investigations relate to the particular situation of “ suburban On which the company focuses the insecurity which crosses it as a whole.
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