Documents found
-
113.More information
In the 1990's, as an alternative to sectorial public policies and strict regulations to protect the environment, experimentations of integrated management have multiplied. Different types of stakeholders are asked to harmonize their interests over environmental issues. This article looks at different factors that influence the implementation and the functioning of consultation committees on the Saint Lawrence river – known as ZIP. Through a case study, using organizational sociology, we examined the obstacles that have to be surmounted in order to organize a collective action to protect and restore the Saint Lawrence river.
-
115.More information
Joining a sporting activity is conveying identities to the same extent as engaging in political activities or practicing a religion. The practitioner who is placed into a specific cultural context, is driven to embody a system of codes, values and representations mediated by internal logics on one hand and implicit mechasisms on the other. Through a filter of analysis that combines the study of the practitionner and the study of the structure within which she evolves, this article is exploring the identities played into games and sports in order to provide a better assessment of the conditions of expression and emancipation of the acting player.
-
117.More information
Predicating this essay upon a dynamic in which social practitioners resist technocratic administration of social services, the author analyzes how these practitioners go about identifying the contradictions and issues at stake in their fields of intervention. The limitations of the professional concept of intervention as a management ideology are shown and a dimension is found to be missing from this model—the taking into account of social relationships. The author demonstrates how an epistemology of intervention that is more oriented toward action theory could better respond to the problem described above.
-
118.More information
We are witnessing a revolution at the university, an overturning of the very purposes of education. As in the novel of anticipation, Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell, 1990 [1948]), this revolution is being conducted in the subtlest and therefore most effective manner: through language. The revolutionized university now speaks and writes the jargon of performance, defined according to market economy laws and criteria. This jargon is a Newspeak, in other words, as the term suggests, an instrument of thought control. This Newspeak also has a performance value; it produces the reality it evokes. But the reality produced and justified by performance Newspeak leads to a departure from the goals of university teaching, research and administration. By shedding light on the perversions of corporate language, one can hope to plant the premises of the University’s resistance.
-
119.More information
Le recueil de brèves théâtrales "Les Journées nationales" rassemble trois courtes pièces ("La Journée nationale du pardon", "La Journée nationale de la lutte contre l’embonpoint" et "La Journée nationale de la frivolité") qui reposent sur une prémisse commune, en apparence farfelue : l'obligation de célébrer un quelconque impératif social dicté par la majorité. À travers un humour parfois noir, "Les Journées nationales" se présentent comme de courtes satires sociales qui, en judiciarisant une conduite morale implicitement imposée, entreprennent de disséquer et de décomposer les normes sociales et les valeurs généralement admises afin d’en souligner les incohérences. "Quand les huissiers se saisissent de la scène : l’absurde bureaucratique dans le théâtre contemporain" est un essai qui vise à analyser les procédés et à identifier les enjeux …
-
120.More information
AbstractIf Foucault's work can be described as unclassifiable, it can certainly also be said that there is a sociology in that work. But which ? One of Foucault's essential contributions is that of having given a central place to the body in the analysis of the processes of behaviour regulation. The idea that power passes materially through the thickness of bodies without being replaced by representations in itself constitutes a veritable program of materialist sociology. But what material are we talking about ? This paper tries to understand Foucault's epistemological standpoint as regards the concept of social consistency. What is this social flesh on which dangerous, threatened or disturbing behaviours are regulated, but on which are also based identities and alternative practices (in discomfort, suffering, resistence, positive appropriation, even organised social struggle) ? Analysis of the related economies of subjection/subjectification and abnormality/ anamaly (divisive practices) in Foucault's work give a better understanding of the originality of his sociology.