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Sociology has often included the temporal dimension to researches as a variable, but rarely chose to focus specifically on time. As social representation instituted, full of the history of our society, time is however a socio-anthropological object that captures contemporary issues and capitalist relations of domination. We propose here a look on the developments over time to explain how time is an institution. Then, we propose a contemporary reading of the phenomenon (temporal anomy) in front of individualization and hypernomy. We finally propose new tools to understand the contemporary times. These tools are built on a critical perspective inherited from the French School of socio-anthropology and Marxist heterodoxy. The perspective opposes social time-instituted to instituting-time opportunities, in a dialectic actor-system. Behind this communication, you can read the program of an ongoing research.

Keywords: Temps, institué, instituant, Henri Lefebvre, moments, vie quotidienne, Time, Instituted, Instituting, Henri Lefebvre, Moments, Daily-Life

By paying attention to the body during the interview, I seek to generate a grounded and renewed discourse. This attention changes the conception of the interview, which is less a collection of information than a performative game, with a desire to open a mobile and living relationship with memory in the exchange. This also involves the sociologist's body, the way they play with their presence and the setting. More particularly, narratives from the hands' viewpoint bring the body into play in the very act of speaking, offering access to lived experience from memories that have been little used. Through them, the experience appears fundamentally in relation to the context, caught up in the fabric of life's contingencies, remembered by the body through its gestures and sensations and emotions that ran through it. They also reveal an intelligence and imagination that are largely situated in the body, porous to its environment. In this way, they open to an ecological understanding of our actions, revealing the entanglement between our behavior and the environment.

Keywords: Sociologie, danse, performance, perception, improvisation, main, mémoire, Sociology, Dance, Performance, Perception, Improvisation, Hand, Memory

The concepts of corporate citizen and corporate citizenship are economic utopias that challenge traditional ideas about business enterprises. The traditional representation is rooted in an economic ideology in which business autonomy is legitimated by efficiency and a mercantile political project in which the common good depends on the self-interests of the individual actors. The trend in favour of social responsibility has renewed this representation by suggesting that the enterprise must not only pursue its own interests (or those of its shareholders), but also take into consideration the interests of other stakeholders and society at large. In the latest variation of this trend, the concepts of corporate citizen and corporate citizenship diverge even more sharply from the traditional representation of the business enterprise. By using the vocabulary of citizenship, they promote the enterprise to the rank of political actor, thereby eliminating the boundary between the economic world, in which rationality, efficiency and perfection dominate, and the political world, marked by debate and contingent choices. Yet while giving enterprises a formal, legitimate political role, the corporate citizenship trend neglects their influence on public policies and remains closed to critical analysis. In fact, by equating an enterprise with a political actor, the corporate citizenship representation of the business enterprise obscures the issues involved in regulating an economic society having democratic pretensions.

AbstractThe authors of this paper propose an organizational frame for undergraduate studies which would not only improve training, but also create a context that facilitates pedagogical innovation. Their proposal includes a re-organization of each of the programmes into two sections which would be distinct, complementary, and have separate objectives as well as a reorganization of teachers' work into more collective groupings. Support for these proposals comes from experts' testimonies and a series of surveys conducted by a Université du Québec research team during 1995 and 1999.

Using an ethnographic approach, this article examines the excessive weight accorded to permanent missions in Common Foreign and Security Policy (cfsp) decision making and the resulting convergence of member state bureaucracies and diplomaties. Our Spanish case study shows that resistance to Europeanization on the part of central departments produces a special kind of conciliatory diplomacy.

Keywords: Pesc, Espagne, prise de décision, diplomatie, conciliation, cfsp, Spain, decision making, diplomacy, conciliation, cfsp, Spain, decision making, diplomacy, conciliation

SummaryOxidation control is necessary to manage the evolution of complex biological system, particularly in food whose degradation could have consequences on food security. After description of context and oxidation mechanisms, several analytical methods to evaluate the additive antioxidant potential are presented. This evaluation is performed either by quantification of products (in particular hydroperoxydes) using direct or indirect photometric techniques and chemical titration with suitable reactants or on the effectiveness to trap free radicals with modelized systems that can generate them. Methods based on the comparison of radical trapping ability between an additive and Trolox (particularly Trolox® equivalent antioxydant capacity, TEAC) can be applied to many products whatever the hydrophily or the hydrophobia of the medium.

AbstractHow does the Quebec government undertake gender-based analysis ? What role do the project's supporters have ? Why did the government undertake this project ? What are the challenges involved in an approach that seeks to place gender equality at the core of decision-making ? This article addresses such questions, with particular attention to the importance of political will, of the commitment and mobilisation of bureaucrats, and the internal organisational processes as well as to strategic alliances with the women's movement and other equality-seeking groups in civil society.