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The academicization of social work training is often thought of as a remedy for the tendency to reproduce knowledge and practices due to a system in which peer training is highly dominant. Faced with the transformations and processes of pedagogical reengineering that have developed in the field of social work training in France since the 2010s, including their entry into the European system of higher education, and the addition of academic subjects to the training courses, it is appropriate to question the issues and the scope of a resulting universitarization. In the absence of a clear theoretical framework and of concepts that allow for thinking about the social action of individual support and collective transformation, future social workers are exposed to cognitive dissonance. Intervention sociology, among other disciplines, can provide the theoretical, conceptual and methodological materials to avoid these dissonances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Des travaux ont mis en évidence la contamination et l'impact des résidus médicamenteux, et plus largement des produits de soins, sur les milieux aquatiques et le milieu marin. La réduction à la source des micropolluants d'origine pharmaceutique, liés à la consommation de médicaments ou à une mauvaise gestion des médicaments non utilisés, s'avère nécessaire. Au regard de leur rôle déterminant dans la consommation de médicaments, il est important de comprendre comment les médecins et les pharmaciens appréhendent la problématique des micropolluants liés aux médicaments et comment ils intègrent, ou pensent pouvoir intégrer, cet enjeu dans leurs pratiques de prescription et de délivrance de médicaments. Sur la base d'une enquête sociologique qualitative auprès de médecins et de pharmaciens de ville du bassin d'Arcachon, cet article montre la faible « préhension » de l'enjeu des micropolluants liés aux médicaments par ces professionnels, que ce soit en termes de représentations ou d'intégration de l'enjeu dans leurs logiques de prescription, de conseils et de délivrances de médicaments aux patients et/ou aux consommateurs. Les contraintes et les déterminants (économiques, sociologiques, organisationnels, symboliques et culturels, etc.) qui structurent les relations médecin-patient et pharmacien-patient-consommateur en France n'apparaissent pas propices à une réduction de la consommation de médicaments, qu'ils soient prescrits ou autoconsommés. En dépit de représentations et pratiques professionnelles différentes, pour tous les médecins et pharmaciens interrogés, les enjeux de santé (bénéfice-risque pour le patient ou le consommateur) demeurent toujours prioritaires sur les objectifs de préservation de la biodiversité. Cela étant, des professionnels enquêtés soulignent l'existence de marges de manœuvre pour « optimiser » la consommation de médicaments. Une relation médecin-patient moins contrainte par le temps et moins organisée autour de la prescription de médicaments, et une relation pharmacien-médecin-consommateur où les pharmaciens ont un rôle plus reconnu et actif dans la gestion des traitements médicamenteux des individus, semblent des pistes intéressantes pour réduire les micropolluants médicamenteux à la source sans compromettre l'atteinte des objectifs de santé. Dans ce cadre, notre analyse montre que l'action publique devra accompagner l'écologisation des pratiques des professionnels de santé, à commencer par les informer et les former davantage sur les risques environnementaux et potentiellement sanitaires liés à l'abondante consommation de médicaments. D'autres leviers et outils devront aider les professionnels à intégrer davantage les enjeux de préservation du vivant dans leurs logiques professionnelles. It is now recognized that residues of medication and more generally of care products (such as sunscreens) contaminate and disturb aquatic and marine environments. The reduction of the source of micropollutants related to drug consumption, including improved management of unused drugs, is needed. In view of their role in the consumption of these drugs in France, we conducted a qualitative sociological study of physicians and pharmacists in private practice around the Arcachon basin (Gironde, France) to examine their understanding of this issue of micropollutants from drug consumption and how they integrate this issue into their drug prescription and dispensing practices. Our study shows their lack of consideration of this issue in general, including in terms of representations, and their failure to integrate this issue into their logic of prescribing, advising, and dispensing drugs to patients and consumers. The constraints and determinants (economic, sociological, organizational, symbolic and cultural, etc.) that structure physician-patient and pharmacist-patient-consumer relationships in France do not help to reduce drug consumption, be it by professionals' prescriptions or by self-medication. Despite their different professional representations and practices, the physicians and pharmacists surveyed always prioritized health issues (benefit-risk for the patient or the consumer) over the objective of preserving biodiversity. Nonetheless, they underline the existence of leeway for "optimizing" drug consumption in relation to micropollutants. A physician-patient relationship less constrained by time and less organized around drug prescription and a pharmacist-doctor-consumer relationship where pharmacists have a more recognized and active role in the management of individual drug treatments seem to be interesting avenues toward reducing these micropollutants at the source without jeopardizing health goals. Action by public authorities should support the greening of health professionals' practices, at least by offering them more information and training about the environmental risks associated with the current abundant consumption of medications. Other levers and tools should help health professionals to further integrate the issues of preservation of living things into their professional logic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the novel And Their Children After Them, Prix Goncourt 2018, Nicolas Mathieu points out the transmission of behavioral patterns from parents to their children. With his characters and his literary process, he views this phenomenon from an almost sociological standpoint. It would be unthinkable to approach this subject without mentioning Pierre Bourdieu and his analysis of the mechanisms of social reproduction. In doing so, we will therefore use Bourdieu's terminology: habitus, capital, field, illusio, etc. This cross-reading will allow us to see to what extent this bildungsroman illustrates the theory of the famous sociologist. The fact that the author himself refers to Bourdieu further justifies our approach. In the novel, Mathieu draws a portrait of France on the outskirts in the throes of deindustrialisation in the 1990s, with representatives of different social classes as protagonists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: Cet article revient sur l'évolution des collaborations entre associations et instituts d'expertise dans le domaine de la santé environnementale en France de 1990 à aujourd'hui. L'article décrit la manière dont les organismes d'expertise se sont adaptés à un nouveau contexte, plaçant leurs collaborations avec les associations au cœur des agendas institutionnels. En retraçant la généalogie des politiques d'ouverture à la société, nous donnons à voir les enjeux, les différents groupes d'acteurs embarqués, ainsi que les normes et les procédures à travers lesquels ces politiques sont mises en œuvre. Enfin, nous soulignons les principales limites de ces politiques, dessinant des perspectives aux associations et organismes d'expertise pour poursuivre le changement enclenché. This paper reviews the evolution of alliances between advocacy groups and associations, on the one hand, and scientific institutes and agencies, on the other, in the field of environmental health in France from 1990 until now. The article describes how these public institutions of expertise have adapted to a new context, placing their collaborations with associations at the heart of their institutional agendas. By retracing the history of opening policies to society, we show the stakes, the different groups of actors involved, as well as the norms and procedures by which science reaches out to society. Finally, we highlight the main limitations of these policies and outline opportunities for associations and expertise organizations to continue this change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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French pragmatic sociology (PS), inspired by the work of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot, is being increasingly used by organizational management studies. However, the critical dimension of this approach has not yet been integrated for the benefit of knowledge in management and organizations (MOK). In this article, we elaborate on the contribution that PS can represent for critical management studies (CMS). As a 'science of the players' science' [science de la science des acteurs], we suggest that PS is fertile for the development of the concept of critical performativity. In particular, we demonstrate that the approach allows shedding light on the new and more complex forms of domination exerted in contemporary organizations. Using empirical studies of organizations employing PS, we demonstrate how the concepts of compromise and test developed by this approach offer tools that allow renewing the critique of organizations for the benefit of MOK. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One hundred years after its publication, Émile Durkheim's later sociology of religion continues to exert an enormous inluence on religious studies. Indeed, the impact of The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life has been so pervasive that sociology lost sight of most of the other work done by the L'Année sociologique team in the sociology of religion. The contributions of the collaborators have been really important. This holds true especially for Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss who played a leading role within the Durkheim-school, particularly with respect to the study of religion. In our paper we would like to show that Hubert and Mauss preigured several of the crucial arguments of Durkheim's later sociology of religion (such as the equation of society and the sacred). In the conclusion, we present Mauss' own evaluation of their collective work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Analysing the writings and research from major French feminist studies scholars, this article attempts to reconstruct a debate which has never really taken place in France although it has developed in other countries (for example in Britain and the USA) about the legitimacy of sexuality as a relevant topic for sociological research and as a specific issue for feminist theorization. Having outlined the considered, and partly historically justifiable, reasons developed in France to reject the inclusion of sexuality in gender theorization, this article argues that articulating gender and sexuality brings epistemological and political payoffs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism for the books "Mon cinéma de Cannes à Canal +: Itiniéraire d'un distributeur gâté" by René Bonnell, and "Le choix d'Arte" by Jérôme Clément is presented. The discussion is centered around the recent history of French television, and gives particular attention to the interaction between television on the one hand, and culture on the other. Themes discussed include mass media and culture, modernism, and sociology.

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This paper focuses on some salient issues of urban sustainable development in France with a specific accent on six urban agglomerations: Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nantes and Toulouse. The reticular nature of these issues and the circuits leading to their realization are analysed with reference to the ways a multiplicity of actors conceive, plan and bring about the construction of cities, rather than through sectoral viewpoints. Thus, urban sustainable development appears within a (locally variable) set of linkages that sets these issues firmly in areas of interrelations and intersections. Based on a large body of documentation and field work (observations and interviews) this approach helps trace the complex relations between discourse and the reality of on-going dynamics, including the implementation of sustainable development urban operations such as mutations in the domain of public action as exemplified by urbanisation. These relations converge in articulating the issues, with urban sustainable development — in the diversity of its usages — becoming a "portmanteau", much like "governance". In this context, technical experts and the "city professionals" can be seen as intermediary representatives: actors/go-betweens who contribute to the development of links and modes of combining practices between usually separate worlds. On this assumption, we consider that nowadays novel professions directly linked with urban areas and environmental issues are emerging at public local level (cities, metropolitan institutions, town-planning agencies, semi-public companies, associations acting as service providers, etc.), in proportion with the development of an urban sustainable development "repertoire" in urban politics. New specific competences and scopes of activities extend and define the field of sustainable development experts. Nevertheless, these competences remain broken up between several kinds of jobs and functions (civil servants and local government officers, project leaders, urban architects, consultants, employees of associations, etc.). Indeed, the limits of this professionalization process are significant of the success of urban sustainable development itself, which can be interpreted as a malleable concept, a property considered as a central condition of its cognitive and practical diffusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article discusses Auguste Comte's idea of applied mathematics. Auguste Comte was a French philosopher and founder of the discipline of sociology and of the doctrine of positivism. Topics discussed in the article include classification of sciences, indirect measures, mathematical physics, and positivism.

The article discusses the life and mathematical work of Marc Barbut, one of the first mathematicians to introduce mathematics in the study of human sciences in France. The article focuses on the history and development of Spanish Statistics. Topics mentioned in the article include Barbut's career, his first professional visit to Spain in 1967, and his collaboration to the Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED).

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As introduction is presented in which the author discusses the development of music sociology in France and discusses various topics including the research of sociologists Pierre-Michel Menger and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

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Suburban spaces often evoke the picture of sprawling housing estates and the high use of car driving they entail. But some of these estates are also crossed by paths used by walkers. These paths enjoy less attention than trails in tourist areas. But being close to towns and suburban areas, they are used by walkers living in these areas. Such is the case for paths along the south-eastern border of Toulouse in South-West France. A survey was made of both people walking along these paths and the workers responsible for their maintenance. There appeared a great diversity in practices and use, especially in the ways of taking advantage of the resources offered by the paths. What emerged even more clearly was the social process which reinforces the social advantage of some while pushing others out towards the margins. Thus, when the local community invests in path development policy and claims to protect biodiversity, it is little aware that it threatens simultaneously what may be called sociodiversity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on an interdisciplinary analysis associating sociology and biology, this paper studies the social discourses and practices concerning mosquitoes and mosquito pest management in France. The qualitative and quantitative sociological field studies involved two areas, the Rhone river delta and the French alpine valleys. Recalling the anthropocentric heritage of our western societies, our paper shows an evolution, linked to recent social changes, towards more biocentric references, a fact that is noticeable in discourses and attitudes toward mosquitoes. Rather than a radical switch, processes of cohabitation and hybridizing may be observed, combining popular and scientific knowledge, environmental, medical and social issues. The first part of this paper highlights the social and biological relationships between the insect and its habitat, i.e., wetlands. The second part focuses on the forms of articulation between anthropocentrism and biocentrism, especially through the dualism pest/useful insect. The third and last part analyses how the "taxonomic arrangements" between anthropocentrism and biocentrism have triggered an evolution of French public policies regarding mosquito pest management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]