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Youths of Two Continents

by Thomas Grillot, 7 August 2012

Whether in Britain, the U.S., Quebec, France, or elsewhere, youths tend to make the news only when they riot. But what is the true meaning of this overused and overextend category—“youth”? A (...)

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To Have or Not to Have

Poverty and Wealth in National Contexts

by Emilie Frenkiel, 15 July 2012

How to combat growing inequalities and injustice in a given country? Recent research suggests that solutions lie in better understanding and controlling access to education and working conditions (...)

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Essays

Two cities with School Segregation? 2/2

Paris

by Marco Oberti & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 27 April 2012

French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)

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Two cities with School Segregation? 1/2

Chicago

by Marco Oberti & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 26 April 2012

French programs of “positive discrimination” are supposed to help open elite education to socially disadvantaged students. While challenging the idea that diversity is truly promoted in the United (...)

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Political Education in the Soviet Union

About: Jeffrey Brooks, « Peasants into Bolsheviks? », Books and Ideas.

by Alexandre Sumpf, 3 November 2011

Alexandre Sumpf defends his view of political education in the Soviet Union. Anything but another study on the Bolshevik agenda in the countryside, his book investigates the process of (...)

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For a Social Investment Pact in Europe

by Anton Hemerijck & Bruno Palier & Frank Vanderbroucke, 15 June 2011

Three researchers react against the perspective for European countries of drastic austerity and emphasize the need, central to the Lisbon Agenda, for social investment. Investing in the skills of (...)

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Culture of poverty and Social Resilience

An interview with Michele Lamont

by Nicolas Duvoux & Elise Tenret & Nadège Vezinat, 20 May 2011

In this interview, Michele Lamont explains different facets of her intellectual work. She comments on the cultural sociology she practices and on her urge to both understand how individuals make (...)

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The Making of an American Aristocracy

An Interview with Shamus Khan

by Pauline Peretz, 4 May 2011

How can the United States sustain the paradox of being a nation founded on freedom and equality while tolerating such levels of inequalities that many diagnose a return to the Gilded Age? For (...)

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Reviews

The Social Utility of the Humanities

About: M. Nussbaum, Not for Profit. Why Democracy Needs the Humanities, Princeton University Press.

by Solange Chavel & translated by Arthur Goldhammer, 26 April 2011

Is the teaching of the humanities a luxury that today’s societies can no longer afford? Martha Nussbaum responds that, on the contrary, in a world of globalized economic competition, there are (...)

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Inbreeding in Universities: In Favour of Administrative Regulation

A reply to Olivier Bouba-Olga, Michel Grossetti and Anne Lavigne

by Olivier Godechot & Alexandra Louvet, 29 April 2010

In response to the reaction of three researchers in Economic Sciences and Sociology published yesterday in La Vie des Idées, Oliver Godechot and Alexandra Louvet here round out and clarify their (...)

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