The laws of the unstable
A new physics is developing in contact with biology and chemistry; it seeks to understand the behavior of objects traditionally
Lessons under control?
The influence of politics on school textbooks is a subject full of passions and controversies. A collective work reviews it
Trade Unionism in the Age of Deindustrialization
The ethnography of a factory taken over by its employees highlights aspects of unionism that are too often ignored. Union
Polemics and controversies surrounding the racial question
To provide its readers with keys to understanding the polemics and controversies surrounding the racial question, La Vie des Idées
The automobile company
The car is everywhere. The success of motorization is explained by the adequacy between a commodity and the aspirations of
Alzheimer’s and social inequalities
Could Alzheimer’s disease be a social construct? This is what a survey that crosses the sociologies of health and family
Green creators
What are the effects of the work of art on consciousness and on society? Ecological art renews this question in
After prison
In the United States, about 650,000 people are released from prison each year; many will return. Bruce Western and his
The taste of the archive in the digital age
Historical research methods have been turned upside down in less than two decades. How can we preserve or renew the
The individual condition
An omnipresent figure in sociology, has the individual nevertheless been thought of in a stable and homogeneous manner? Is the