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The literature on environmental management identifies three main ecological drivers : relational, economic and ethical. However, little attention is given to their emergence process. Thus, this research is threefold. The first is to identify the ecological drivers of Tunisian firms. The second is to compare the ecological drivers of small and medium firms, and large firms. The third is to propose an evolutionary ecological drivers process. Therefore, a study was conducted on eight cases, including six SMEs, with 35 semi-structured interviews. The results show that environmental drivers are essentially relational. Also, an evolutionary ecological driver's process in three stages is proposed which is based on the size of the firm.
Keywords: Partie prenante, Éthique, PME, Processus, Méthode des cas
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In some industrialized western countries are juxtaposed densely populated areas and sparsely populated areas which are marginalized and on the way to desertification. The future of such areas which can be described by many adjectives, all connoted such as "fragile", "marginal","outlying", "penalized", depends on the policies done by the different authorities for the regional development. But the results obtained during the last few years, which are not convincing when taken as a whole, justify the resort to another approach: development, territorialities, partnership correspond to three concepts which are very connected and liable to be used as a matter for serious thought and later for intervention in this kind of areas. To claim from now on such a procedure, means to prepare oneself to face the significant territorial stake which those empty areas will represent tomorrow.
Keywords: Territorialité, développement rural, partenariat, vie associative, espaces à faibles densités, Territoriality, rural development, partnership, associative life, sparsely populated areas
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In order to analyze cities as social technologies, it is necessary to focus on middle-range phenomena. The Polanyi/Akerman framework is used to carry out a meso-analytical survey of Canadian urban history in the 1850-1914 period. The Canadian urban system is seen as marginal to the American system in the same way that the Atlantic and Western regions are marginal to Central Canada. This relationship modifies the expected impact of technological and industrial change on the pattern of urban development.
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AbstractWork of the mentally ill in France. A story of a side-stepped social usefulness The concept of "mental alienation" in a etymological and philosophical sense means "a subjective process by which an individual becomes stranger to himself". Alienation covers the feeling of powerlessness (being unable to influence the course of events), the absence of recognition of social norms leading to mental and social isolation, finally, lack of significance (not understanding the world in which we live). Following Engels and Marx, the modern worker, like the mentally ill, is also touched by a kind of alienation, this time objective. Like mental illness, work renders the individual a stranger to himself and leads to multiple forms of enslavement, by the absence of power on his conduct, by the blind obedience to social norms, and by the reification of the alienated product of labour of its human essence leading to the loss of meaning (Rosner, 1967).
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To answer the question of whether sociology must change to meet the challenge of societies in motion, the author proposes a methodological detour through the sociology of transformations experienced by French society since the postwar period. After summing up the background, she proposes an analysis of the characteristics and conditions of production. This allows her to update the obstacles that sociologists must overcome to be able to capture the movement of societies.
Keywords: sociologie, France, transformation, après-guerre, production, Sociology, France, Transformation, Post-War, Production, Sociología, Francia, transformación, post-guerra, producción
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This article traces the development of the relationship between education, organization and research in the group People and Culture from its beginnings in the post-war period to the present day.Mental training and participatory research methods were characteristic of the initial period of the group. In spite of wishes to the contrary, educational and research activities have become progressively differentiated especially since community organizers came on the scene in the early sixties and the sociologists of the seventies.The question now is how to effectively coordinate these activities. People and Culture has come up with a synthesis which tries to conciliate the objective of a "collective intellectual" with the necessary division of labour.