Since its creation in October 2007, the Laviedesidees.fr site has published one article per day on average. Many of you read us and we thank you for your loyalty. Here we have gathered a selection of tests and reading reports, published this year on the site, around two themes: identity and solidarity. You can download these documents in PDF format. We wish you a good reading and a very beautiful summer !
Identity
This document (Pdf – 425.6 KB) brings together a selection of tests and reading reports
On the theme of identity, published this year on Laviedesidees.fr.
Summary :
Barak Obama: from Africa to America, by Sylvie Laurent
Through his origins, Barack Obama embodies the dream of a long -awaited reunion between Africa and Black America. But the myth comes up against reality: the supposed fraternity between the “ Africans-Americans And Africa is based on many misunderstandings. After the historic portrait of John McCain, Sylvie Laurent offers a reading of Obama’s Africanity.
Birth of identification, by Chiara Lucrezio Monticelli
About A story of identity by Vincent Denis, Champ Vallon, Seyssel, 2008.
Vincent Denis returns to the origins of the Surveillance Society, by retracing the birth of the identification procedures for individuals in XVIIIe And XIXe century.
Criticism of cultural hegemony, by Florent Guénard
About Identities and cultures. Cultural Studies policiesfrom Stuart Hall, Editions Amsterdam, 2007.
In mass societies, cultural productions are at the service of the ruling classes. This is the conviction of the British philosopher and sociologist Stuart Hall, one of the main figures of Cultural Studies. It remains to be seen how this codification of social reality works.
A story of the “ blurful “, by Mathieu Tracman
About Crazy about France, rethink male homosexualityby Jean-Yves Le Talec, La Découverte, 2008.
The crazy people more often lend to laugh than they suggest: it is all the interest of Jean-Yves Le Talec’s work to take seriously the character of La Folle as part of a sociology of sexuality and culture.
How we identify foreigners, by Quentin Deluermoz
About Identification, genesis of state workunder the direction of G. Noiriel, Belin, 2007.
The problem is not to decipher the “ identify », Cultural or social, foreigners. The real question, for the historian Gérard Noiriel, consists in highlighting the processes which made it possible to identify them over time, using “ papers Or other techniques. In a stimulant collection of articles, which brings together specialists from all periods and all countries, he studies the genesis of increasingly effective distance control.
The use of ethnic categories in debate, by Mirna Safi
Ten years after the review Populationthere French Sociology Review has just published a dossier-debate on the use of ethnic categories in sociology. Contributions make it possible to measure the growing social and political legitimacy of these instruments.
How to feel European ? by Céline Spector
About Constitutional Patriotism From Jan-Werner Müller, Princeton University Press, 2007.
If we can today still feel linked to our homeland, it is clear that we can hardly manage to feel Europeans: the enthusiasm of peoples for an above all economic Europe is low. How to build a European identity ? Constitutional patriotism, according to Jan-Werner Müller, is the only possible answer to this question.
“” Talk about other languages than that of science »: Interview with Gérard Noiriel
Interview by Ivan Jablonka & Nicolas Delalande
At a time when immigration and national identity are officially associated as stakeholders of a problem, the historian Gérard Noiriel returns for Laviedesidees.fr on the scientific and political issues that these concepts cover. Interview.
Solidarity
This document (Pdf – 765 kB) brings together a selection of tests and reading reports
On the theme of solidarity, published this year on Laviedesidees.fr.
Summary :
THE RSA and the fight against poverty, by Jean-Luc Outin
The economist Jean-Luc Outin takes stock of the history of social minima, defines the challenges of their merger announced by the reform and envisages its potentially deregular effects on the labor market.
THE Rmi In Reunion: lessons of a decentering, by Nicolas Duvoux
About Sociology of an integrated society. Reunion in the face of mass unemploymentby Nicolas Roinsard, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007.
By studying the Reunionese company, where the massive recourse to national solidarity transforms without destroying them private solidarity, Nicolas Roinsard is led to put into perspective the concept of disaffiliation, designed by Robert Castel to analyze the social question in metropolitan France. Perhaps excessive relativization.
Robert Putnam and new American indifference, by Eloi Laurent
About E Pluribus unum: diversity and community in the twenty-tirst centuryby Robert D. Putnam, 2007.
While France tries to fix – if necessary necessary – a fortunately fleeting identity, a poisoned thesis reaches us from where we were waiting for it: a progressive American political scientist supports, empirical proofs in support, that diversity “ racial “Leads to civic discomfort.
The solidarism of Léon Bourgeois, a liberal socialism ?by Nicolas Delalande
About Léon Bourgeois. Base solidarityby Serge Audier, Editions Michalon, collection “ The common good “, 2007
“” The isolated individual does not exist “: This was his credo. At a time when social protection seems threatened and disputed everywhere in its foundations, it is good to look at the somewhat forgotten work of Léon Bourgeois: radical politician of the IIIe Republic, the first president of the League of Nation, he was also the theorist of solidarism, inspired by pastor work to think of social prophylaxis.
For critical solidarity, by Philippe Chanial and Sylvain Dzimira
About Solidarity. History of an ideaby Marie-Claude Blais, Gallimard, 2007.
From a reading of the work of Marie-Claude Blais, Philippe Chanial and Sylvain Dzimira highlight an alternative filiation, of socialist inspiration, of the idea of solidarity. They draw the consequences of the importance of the idea of donation in solidarity for contemporary updating of this republican principle.
Minimum wage : questions and answers (episode 1), by Philippe Askenazy
Should we reform the Minimum wage ? Too high, too restrictive, too universal, the French minimum wage passes for hiring discouragement. Many also deplore a “ smicardization »Of French Society. This is why the government explicitly planned to modify the mechanisms of Minimum wage In his referral to the employment guidance council, even though the demands on purchasing power are more insistent. These different diagnostic elements are not as guaranteed as it is often believed. In order to set as objectively as possible the terms of the discussion, Philippe Askenazy offers here a game of questions/answers in several episodes of which here is the first.
Outdoor expulsions: collective trauma, By Hervé Guillemain
About Children’s hunting. The mirror effect of the expulsion of undocumentedfrom Miguel Benasayag, Angélique Del Rey and activists of ResfThe 2008 discovery
Miguel Benasayag and activists from the Education Sans Frontières network study the consequences that the expulsions of undocumented children have, by a phenomenon of “ mirror effect », On the entire social body. Both a sociological investigation and a citizen alert, their action defines a new way of campaigning.
Essay against donation, by Pascal Sévérac
About Sovereign interest. Spinozist economic anthropology testfrom Frédéric Lordon, La Découverte, 2006.
Essay against the gift: using Conatus’ spinozist concept to analyze the interested structure of all the figures of the gift, F. Lordon offers us a beautiful alliance of philosophy and social sciences. Thanks to the Conatus, the gift appears to be the fiction of a disinterestedness, in truth to ward off the original violence of human relationships. But the Conatus, as deployed in Spinoza’s philosophy, defines only a war anthropology ?
Economic efficiency can justify the increase in inheritance tax ?
by Luc Arrondel & André Masson
How to encourage senior households who have the means to transmit their heritage more quickly to their children or grandchildren ? The natural way, according to economists Luc Arrondel and André Masson, consists in giving the advantage to the transfers between lively, aid or donations, by increasing the tax on inheritances.