Hichem Karoui

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

by Andre Gunder Frank

University of Toronto

INTRODUCTION

Philleas Phogg miscalculated the eighty day count for his trip around the world, because he crossed the international dateline. So we may be excused if we also fudge our eighty year counts a bit in our round the world review of its shifting image. This year marks the 150th anniversary [...]

Max Weber (1904-1905)

Tous ceux qui, élevés dans la civilisation européenne d’aujourd’hui, étudient les problèmes de l’histoire universelle, sont tôt ou tard amenés à se poser, et avec raison, la question suivante : à quel enchaînement de circonstances doit-on imputer l’apparition, dans la civilisation occidentale et uniquement dans celle-ci, de phénomènes culturels qui – du moins [...]

TRANSLATED, EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION By: Kurt H. Wolff

SIMMEL’S READERS MAY well find themselves puzzled once they try to analyze their impression: does it come from an extraordinary mind or from its product, from a process or from an achievement, from an attitude or from the discoveries made by virtue of it? The dichotomies [...]

Stephane Lelay

Summary

How précarisation salariale and social sufferance has transformed governmentability of the working class

The question of precariousness is often addressed in terms of link to work and its reorganization following “fordism” and “post-fordism”. For the past 20 years, analyses have focused on how workers status and access to work evolved as a consequence of [...]

Max Weber

Translated and Edited by
EDWARD A. SHILS and HENRY A. FINCH

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 substantive problems of the theory and strategy of the social sciences. They were [...]

EMILE DURKHEIM (1897-1898)

in: Année sociologique, vol. II, 1897-1898, pp. 1 à 28, rubrique: “Mémoire originaux”. Paris: PUF. Texte reproduit dans Journal sociologique , pp. 140 à 165. Paris: PUF, 1969, 728 pages. Collection Bibliothèque de philosophie contemporaine, 728 pp.

Emile Durkheim (1907)

Extrait de la Revue de philosophie, vol. 7, n˚ 5, pp. 528-539 (1907); vol. 7, n˚ 7, pp. 92-114 (1907); vol. 7, n˚ 12, pp. 620-638 (1907). Texte reproduit in Émile Durkheim. Textes. 2. Religion, morale, anomie (pp. 65 à 122). Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, 1975, 508 pages. Collection: Le sens commun…