Cet ouvrage montre que la métropole parisienne s'apparente à une « anarchie organisée », avec ses contingences, ses rapports de forces, ses veto redoutables pour empêcher l'émergence de politiques ou bloquer leur mise en place, mais aussi ses instruments et ses données plus ou moins partagés, ses coalitions stabilisées et ses projets politiques.

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Cet ouvrage permet de restituer la vitalité et la diversité du monde associatif au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles.

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L'ouvrage fait revivre un épisode méconnu de l'histoire récente des États-Unis : l’affaire de Newburgh n’annonce pas seulement le démantèlement progressif de l’État providence hérité du New Deal, elle sert aussi de rampe de lancement à un nouveau conservatisme, qui s’incarnera dans le reaganisme et fera florès jusqu’en Europe.

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This book explores the work of economists, statisticians, union and business representatives, political and administrative leaders, who have accumulated proof that this economic entity exists and that its variations can be measured.

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For six years, Lucile Quéré has conducted ethnographic research in France, Switzerland, and Belgium with feminist self-help groups who are challenging the medical hold over women's bodies and sexualities.

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This book takes a sociological perspective on the condition of contemporary poets, which is relatively well-organised, combining literary and "secondary" activities.

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Through a study conducted in the Deux-Sèvres, the Ardennes, the Crozon peninsula, and the Chartreuse mountains, Yaëlle Amsellem-Mainguy set out to meet young women whose lives may appear unproblematic and yet who are fully confronted by the major economic, social, and political evolutions in the country.

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Bringing together the most recent studies, this book explores the way French society looks at the police as an institution.

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Fondé sur une enquête de long cours à New York et à Paris, ce livre cherche à évaluer la véritable portée de ces conduites gestionnaires marquées du sceau de la vertu. Il pose un regard critique sur la prétention du capitalisme contemporain à opérer une fusion entre profit et bien commun.

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To try and understand the reasons for this powerlessness, Véronique le Goaziou went onto the front line, into the squats and slums of the Bouches-du-Rhône, and around Saint-Charles station in Marseille. For two years she accompanied social workers in their efforts to help the homeless and destitute.

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Lola Zappi traces the source of this profession back to the inter-war period : social worker.

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Drawing on both well-known and less well-known examples (Parcoursup, organ donation, attribution of social housing), sociologists, economists and political scientists investigate this new way of organising our individual trajectories, in order to shed light on its very important political and social implications.

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The voice of the IPCC can be heard everywhere today – and it is increasingly insistent. No one can ignore that levels of greenhouse gases are rising, that the impacts of climate change are being felt on all continents, and that solutions to these challenges exist. 

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In today's world, every activity, every task is entrusted to a new organisation, which has its own codes, hierarchies, and procedures. Yet far from making the world more fluid, horizontal, and flexible, this organisational proliferation makes it ever more complex. The sociologists, political scientists, and historians brought together in this book.

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Between 1954 and 1962, in the middle of the war for independence, the French army and administration set out to "regroup" more than two million Algerians into 2,000 camps.

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Drawing on original research, sociologists, political scientists, and demographers pinpoint the inequalities between young people and other generations, and between young people themselves, which have increased constantly since the economic crisis of 2008.

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Specialising in questions of defence and climate, the authors of this book – the first dedicated to this immense issue – sketch a panorama of the strategic and operational risks associated with climate change. They anticipate what this "hot war" might look like, analysing the challenges armed forces will face, and how they can address them.

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Drawing on the French example, Mathieu Bidaux returns to the historic sources of fabrication and distribution of paper money to explain the trust it continues to inspire today. From as early as 1800, the Banque de France carefully protected the manufacture of bank notes in order to provide its clients with a stable payment system.

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