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AbstractThe Répit-Urbain (urban respite) project offers street youth a structured vacation in the country. This vacation is designed to help the youth develop his personal skills and learn about the harmful effects of drug and alcohol consumption. During the first year of this initiative, nine partner organizations composed 17 groups who participated in the project. In this way, 148 homeless people participated in the Répit-Urbain activities accompanied by workers who were already involved with them. This study focussed on two main objectives : 1) to verify the extent to which Répit-Urbain was able to reach street youth and, 2) to document the perspective of the workers who participated in the project since, in spending time with the persons referred to them, they were obliged to work under conditions very different to those in the street.The study involved 25 workers. The results indicate that, according to the workers, the project did respond to the youths' need for “respite” and encouraged the acquisition of knowledge on subjects they considered important. In general, the program's structure was appreciated as well as the post-stay impacts, including the intensification of the relationship between the youth and their workers. The partnership model proposed offers an interesting potential for street youth, a population considered difficult to reach within the scope of services provided in a “traditional” manner. It also appears to combine certain conditions that contribute to the creation and consolidation of an alliance between homeless people and their workers.

Keywords: intervenants, jeunes de la rue, sans-abri, partenariat, mode de collaboration, workers, street youth, homeless, partnership, cooperative approach, personas de apoyo, jóvenes de la calle, sin techo, asociación, modo de colaboración

In Co-operative Education programs, little consideration is generally given to knowledge transfer taught for work situations. Most existing pedagogical systems more or less implicitly leave this responsibility to each learner. However, for a long time, many studies have shown that this is a very difficult process for isolated individuals. The premise of the work presented in this article is that it is necessary to organize group activities designed to help learners transfer the knowledge they learn into the work context. From this perspective, we report on the process of designing and integrating a knowledge transfer work tool in a university Co-operative Education program, carried out as part of a doctoral thesis. The design process, which was conducted in collaboration with the trainers, is described in detail. We also present the results of tests made on this new tool by some tutors and students. This process led to reorganizing evaluation methods for interns in a work situation, creating closer connections between the various actors involved in evaluation.

This critical anthropological reflection sheds light on the social construction of care in Quebec revealed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the analysis of symbols that circulated in Quebec's public space, we will reflect on how the health crisis may have justified and exacerbated the inequalities, vulnerabilities and multidimensional suffering experienced by certain groups of the population. Specifically, we will examine how lives and their protection have been treated differently depending on the social values placed on the mental health, biological bodies, social status and age of individuals. We will use the conceptual framework of care as a common base for these four reflections.

Keywords: anthropologie de la santé, pandémie de COVID-19, construction sociale du soin, vulnérabilités, inégalités, souffrances multidimensionnelles, medical anthropology, COVID-19 pandemic, social construction of health care, vulnerabilities, inequalities, multidimensional suffering, antropología de la salud, pandemia COVID-19, construcción social del cuidado, vulnerabilidades, desigualdades, sufrimientos multidimensionales

During the last years, academic research in finance has studied small and medium-sized enterprises with mixed success. In this article devoted to entrepreneurial finance, we return to the origins of the currents of scientific thought, at the root of financial knowledge, in order to detect eventual inadequacies to the object of our study, and consequently, in order to reorient efforts in theoretical as well as empirical research.Using large firms as reference, modern financial theory, in pure or amended form, often turns out to be incapable to take into account the managerial specificities of small and medium-sized enterprises. We illustrate in this article the limited analytical range of application of the paradigms or methodologies which are traditionally used. According to us, the theory of the firm, because of its particular role in relation to economic science, represents the corner-stone of any significant advance in the application of models to small and medium-sized enterprises. In particular, the notions of competence and experience of the entrepreneur active on markets characterized by a constant disequilibrium ought to replace the less realistic hypotheses of rational behavior based on the maximization of profits at equilibrium. Finally, in an ultimate enlargement of our field of investigation, we analyze the credibility of an exclusively financial study of small and medium-sized enterprises and the possible contribution of some scientific disciplines rarely used in management science.Our study is intended above all to reveal, but also to integrate, the natural hierarchy of the concepts which are at the basis of the development of entrepreneurial finance.

Keywords: Recherche universitaire en finance, Finance entrepreneuriale, Théorie financière moderne, Théorie de la firme, Modélisation de la PME, Compétence et expérience de l'entrepreneur, Disciplines scientifiques peu conventionnelles en sciences de gestion

This is an essay about contemporary Hongkong cinema and culture. It focuses on the film Rouge (1987), which was adapted from the novella Yanzhi kou (1986) by Li Bihua and directed by Stanley Kwan. Ruhua, a female ghost, comes back from the underworld in the 1980s to look for her lover decades after they committed suicide together. Her search reveals the details of a type of romance which seems to have disappeared in the contemporary world. The essay examines the strong sense of nostalgia emanating from this melancholic love story from several perspectives: the filmic image, ethnography, the agency of chance, and the fantasy of an alternative community in a Hongkong caught in the crisis of its imminent "return" to China by 1997.

Working from the theory of the historical pragmatics of text, the author develops a heuristic model for the historical pragmatics of film. Based on the aesthetics of reception, phenomenology, and the sociology of knowledge, this model focuses on the processes of production and reception, on the network of activities that constitute the existence of "filmic texts." In the second part of the article, the author demonstrates the possibilities of his model in an analysis of the role of the "author" concept (as a historical element of knowledge) in the initial reception of À bout de souffle in the Netherlands.

New reproduction techniques have acutely underscored many unprecedented ethical problems and numerous questions have been raised both in Canada and abroad relating to the acceptable or non-acceptable nature of new possibilities offered by science. Yet, these debates raise another even more fundamental issue, that of the balance of power between science and systems of law. Are these totally distinct domains without any relationship between them ? Owing to its object of study, is science outside the purview of systems of law and if so, would it be impossible for the latter to pass legislation pertaining to science ? Are legal systems sheltered from the influence of science ? This article attempts to address these essential questions. The demarcation of the field of law and the confronting of this demarcation with various aspects of science make it possible to determine in which areas laws may be applied. Evidence demonstrates, nonetheless, that sciences tend to influence legal systems by manipulating concepts relating to the fundamental values of our legal system, without this process being noticed. The alteration of the respective place of philosophy and sciences in the universe of values explains the strong influence acquired by sciences and the difficulty that legal systems have in resisting its silent influence.

AbstractFirms' survival and growth address a major problem on which management sciences can give some relevant proposal. A lot of researches on firm's failure stress the role of the company's owner in the failing process, particularly his lack of strategic skills. In this article we analyzed, through a qualitative research, the way 16 company's owners of very small companies design their strategic thinking et their administration methods. This research allows us to propose a methodology to train and help leaders of very small companies to design a strategic thinking as well as appropriate management tools.

Keywords: Défaillance d'entreprises, TPE, Survie/Croissance, Compétences stratégiques, Dysfonctionnements, Small firm's failure, VSE, Growth, Strategic competencies, Dysfunctions, Quiebra, PyME, Desarrollo, Competencias estratégicas, Errores funcionales