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Documentation: Polarisation sociale à l'ère de la mondialisation

La pertinence continue du modèle de la dépendance quantitative Modèle de (Bornschier)

Par :

Arno TAUSCH[1] Professeur adjoint de sciences politiques à l’université d’Innsbruck, Autriche

E-mail: Arno.Tausch @ uibk.ac.at

Almas HESHMATI, Professeur d’économie, College of Engineering, TEMEP, Seoul National University, San 56-1, Shilim-dong, Kwanak-Gu, Seoul, 151-742 Seoul, South Korea,Email: heshmati@snu.ac.kr

Hichem KAROUI, Docteur en [...]

Evangelical Religion and Evangelical Democracy: Lincoln’s Legacy

by David Goldfield

American Studies Journal Number 53 (Summer 2009)

Evangelical religion and evangelical democracy reinforced each other in nineteenth-century America. The spread of evangelical Christianity and democracy across a continent justified the wars against Native Americans and Mexico, and provided the moral framework for the fight against slavery which many Americans came to see as incompatible [...]

A world of connections

Online social networks are changing the way people communicate, work and play, and mostly for the better

Jan 28th 2010 | From The Economist print edition

Illustration by Ian Whadcock

THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates [...]

A Perfect Storm of Ignorance

Cato Policy Report, January/February 2010

by Jeffrey Friedman

Jeffrey Friedman is the editor of Critical Review and of Causes of the Financial Crisis, forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

You are familiar by now with the role of the Federal Reserve in stimulating the housing boom; the role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in encouraging lowequity [...]

La fabrique de habitus économique

Pierre Bourdieu

J’ai assisté dans les années 1960 en Algérie à ce qui m’apparaît rétrospectivement comme une véritable expérimentation sociale Ce pays dans lequel certaines populations montagnardes reculées et isolées comme celles que ai pu étudier en Kabylie avaient pu conserver conserver à peu près intactes les traditions une économie précapitaliste tout à fait [...]

Discovery: The New Science of Learning

Researchers find social aspects of learning important at all ages

According to recent studies, young children learn best through social interaction. Andrew Meltzoff and his colleagues at the University of Washington are studying an emerging field called the “Science of Learning,” which re-evaluates how children learn in formal and informal settings.

Globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century.

A companion to a multivariate analysis

Arno Tausch

Copenhagen and after. A 175 nation data set from international sources

The debate about globalization and the human condition in the 21st Century is really never-ending. In the following freely available data documentation, provided by the Austrian political scientist Dr. Arno Tausch, recent cross-national data from international sources for [...]

On The Methodology of the Social Sciences

MAX WEBER

On The Methodology of the Social Sciences
Translated and Edited by EDWARD A. SHILS and HENRY A. FINCH
With a Foreword by EDWARD A. SHILS

The essays in this book were written, as all methodological essays should be written, in the closest intimacy with actual research and against a background of constant and intensive meditation on the [...]

Religion in World Affairs

Its Role in Conflict and Peace

Author: David Smock

Series: USIP Special Reports

This paper addresses the potentially positive role of religion in peacemaking and conflict resolution, commenting on the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) field work experiences. It examines the link between religion and conflict, reviews the experiences with religious activism, mediation and facilitation and discusses [...]

Outline of the U.S. Economy

The U.S. economy of the 21st century little resembles that of the 18th century, but acceptance of change and embrace of competition remain unchanged.

“The panic itself was felt in every part of the globe,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “It was as if a volcano had burst forth in New York, causing a tidal wave [...]

Global Restrictions on Religion

The PEW Forum December 2009

Executive Summary

For more than half a century, the United Nations and numerous international organizations have affirmed the principle of religious freedom.1 For just as many decades, journalists and human rights groups have reported on persecution of minority faiths, outbreaks of sectarian violence and other pressures on religious individuals and communities in [...]

Profiling Minorities:A Study of Stop-and-Search Practices in Paris

Police et minorités visibles : les contrôles d’identité à Paris

A Report by the Open Society Institute

French residents of immigrant origin, particularly those of North African and sub-Saharan African background, have long complained that police single them out for unfair, discriminatory, and unnecessary identity checks. If these perceptions are true, it means that French police are [...]