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Attitudes toward race not significantly improved from previous years
by Frank Newport – Gallup
PRINCETON, NJ — A majority of Americans, 56%, believe that a solution to America’s race-relations problem will eventually be worked out — a figure that is roughly the same as those Gallup found in the years prior to last fall’s historic election of [...]
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 [...]
Article for the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
Charles Tilly
Columbia University
In 1844, Auguste Comte’s Lecture on the Positivist Outlook (Discours sur l’esprit positif) proposed the name “sociology” for the general science of humanity. In Comte’s vital vision, the hierarchy of sciences proceeded from mathematics at the base through astronomy, physics, chemistry, and [...]
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…
On Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
In the past 15 years interest in promoting and protecting economic, social and cultural rights has grown. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia, Governments and the judiciary are paying increasing attention to the protection of these rights in their programmes, policies and case [...]
Thomas S. Kane
Two broad assumptions underlie this book: (1) that writing is a rational activity, and (2) that it is a valuable activity. To say that writing is rational means nothing more than that it is an exercise of mind requiring the mastery of techniques anyone can learn. Obviously, there are limits: one cannot learn [...]
Thomas Dixon
In recent years the topic of ‘science and religion’ has become almost synonymous, especially in the United States, with debates about evolution. For this reason, two of the six chapters of this book are devoted to evolutionary subjects. The modern American debate about evolution and ‘Intelligent Design’ illustrates particularly clearly how stories about confl [...]
Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thevenot
EHESS, Paris , Journal of European Sociology
Roman par: Honoré de Balzac
Il existe à Douai dans la rue de Paris une maison dont la physionomie, les dispositions intérieures et les détails ont, plus que ceux d’aucun autre logis, gardé le caractère des vieilles construction flamandes, si naïvement appropriées aux moeurs patriarcales de ce bon pays; mais avant de la décrire, peut-être faut-il [...]
Ulrich Beck
ABSTRACT
‘Second age of modernity’ is a magical password that is meant to open the doors to new conceptual landscapes. The whole world of nation sovereignty is fading away – including the ‘container theory of society’ on which most of the sociology of the first age of modernity is based upon. In this article [...]
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