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SummaryThis article traces a portrait of the social context of both the current transition and the one that is emerging, and examines the challenges they pose for current sociology and that of the coming decades. The goal is to show that a qualitative change is taking place, a shift not from modernity to post-modernity, but to another socio-historical form of social relations "awareness" (la conscientivité). To do so, the author examines four socio-historical trends: the evolution of the objectification-subjectification relation; the evolution of the capital-subject relation; the transformation of the identity-solidarity relation; and, lastly, the change occurring in the system of values. The author argues that while the current transition simultaneously involves the possibility and the necessity of shifting to the era of awareness, the likelihood of this shift is questioned in light of the possibility of the extended reproduction of capitalism, which, as such, would push its structural characteristics to a high degree of radical exacerbation, completely denying the legitimacy and primacy of the subject. The first section dwells on the issue of the genetic structuration of the transition situation, which the author examines through the lens of the objectification-subjectification dialectic. The author then examines three modes of objectification (the production of material objects; the production of non-material objects; and the production of intelligent objects) and their consequences for the development of the possibilities for subjecti-fication. The following two sections focus on the problematic of capitalist continuity, its discontinuities (long expansion phases) and the exhaustion of modernity. After having indicated how continuity is disrupted by endogenous causes due the incessant confrontation of the logics of capital and the subject, the author reviews the state of development of the crisis of the Fordist-Keynesian mode of regulation, dwelling on the causes and consequences of capital's declared war on the subject, on the form assumed by the crisis of the exhaustion of the consumption sphere's absorption capacity, and, lastly, on the increase of the possibilities and means of individuation through the Fordist, then the Fordist-Keynesian ways of life. The third section deals with the possibility of shifting to a new mode of regulation discussed-programmed regulation which would facilitate the shift to "awareness." This section successively discusses the following problematics: the emergence of the new techno-economic paradigm programming and of a new mode of alienation; the transformation of the competition relation; the emergence of the discussed-programmed mode of regulation on a global scale; and the duration of the transition in light of the uncontrollable pace taken on by capital's domination. In the fourth section, the author discusses the transformation of identity relations and of the form of solidarity, as well as the role of the subject's will. Lastly, the author argues for the need to shift to a system of values that goes beyond the determinisms of facts of origin. The article concludes by bringing together a number of comments with a view to defining "awareness."

Keywords: modernité, capitalisme, transition, conscience, phases longues d'expansion, identité, solidarité, sujet, objectivation, mode de régulation, modernity, capitalism, transition, awareness, long expansion phases, identity, solidarity, objectification, mode of regulation, modernidad, capitalismo, transición, conciencia, fases largas de expansión, identidad, solidaridad, sujeto, objetivación, modo de regulación

AbstractThis article focuses on the no-code movement, which offers the promise of a software creation democratization and more broadly of society. Here we will try to go beyond this deterministic technophile myth by adopting a co-evolutionary perspective to apprehend the recursive relationships between technical objects and organizational forms and specify the opportunities and constraints that carries these technologies in terms of quality of work and quality of life at work. The article is based on an exploratory study conducted in a consulting firm specializing in digital transformations that reflect important organizational changes following the integration of no-code tools: technical and creative professions are hybridizing, promoting intra- and inter-business collaborations. But if these organizational effects manage to be actualized within this company, it is also because the company represents a favorable social ground where organizational silos are voluntarily unstructured, management is barely present, and where the organization promotes the autonomy of employees. The example of this particular structure reveals the profound co-evolution of technical objects and organizational forms, which shape each other more than they are unilaterally determined.On the other hand, these positive organizational effects are also joined by other unwanted and destabilizing effects for the organization and the actors in place. The deployment of no-code platforms may first of all encounter the reluctance of developers that perceive these tools as a threat, compared to the power they traditionally have in the creation of software. The potential of reconfiguration of these tools disrupts business cultures and the games of actors in place. However, no-code tools are not available to everyone : they are primarily used by curious “hackers”, with a strong appetite for digital technology and a minimum of technical skills, with the risk of creating a division between designers and simple users. Moreover, the apparent ease of their use runs the risk of underestimating the complexity of no-code projects and so generating dysfunctional software products, as well as a sense of abandonment in work teams.

Keywords: Plateformes no code, démocratisation numérique, impacts organisationnels, déterminisme technique, co-évolution, no code platforms, digital democratization, organizational impacts, technical determinism, co-evolution

In the current context of neurotic urbanization, marqued by conflicts bound to pluralism, sociocultural community developers adopt an approach of cultural democracy. But can this perspective favorable to the cultural blooming of communities apply in rural areas ? Indeed, as well in the developed countries as those of the South, an informal system sometimes develops far from urban areas next to the educational official system of school. The creation of youth homes, community centers, sports and other complexes, contributes to the development of the individuals and the communities in these localities. This vision requires to rehabilitate the role of sociocultural community developers too often reduced to that of the public entertainer. Sociocultural community development must be able to set up itself as a vast field of creativity. It consists in co-creating with the individuals, groups and communities activities of leisure susceptible to improve their cognitive, moral, psychological and physical structure. Sociocultural community development works at a proximity level.

Keywords: animación, sociocultural community development, animation, pluralismo, pluralism, pluralisme, urbano/rural, urban/rural, urbain/rural, creativity, créativité, creatividad, loisir, ocio, leisure

As a geographer and a cartographer, the author had in mind a threefold scope :—• to bring a contribution to psychological and behavioral geography, by analyzing regional mental images ;— to get students acquainted with simple quantitative methods of descriptive statistics ;— to initiate a cartographical research dealing with noises in the transmission of informations, by comparing graphs and figures.The datas were collected through 75 four pages questionaries, in order to get descriptions of a Quebec-City citizen, a Toronto citizen, a Frenchman, and a U.S. citizen. In spite of the numerical scantiness of the samples, regional differences were noticeable.

Diffusion of comptency management tools allow to analyze how they are used by employees (Gilbert, 2003). This article shows that the analysis of unexpected uses is a way to better understand the dynamics of those tools. Data collected in a petrochemical company that pays the competencies for 10 years show that a management tool is consituted by heterogeneous elements that are articulated. The unexpected uses weak this articulation. Those uses appear therefore as an explanation of the trajectory of this management tool.

Keywords: Gestion des compétences, usage imprévu, dynamique, rémunération, instrument de gestion, Competency management tool, unexpected use, dynamics, compensation, Gestión de competencias, usos imprevistos, dinámica, remuneración, herramienta de gestión