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ABSTRACTWelfare for single mothers is currently being questioned in several Western countries. This article focuses on Quebec, looking at the historical background, the debate and the analyses centred around the recent reform of the welfare program (the Income Security Act) implementing work incentives (and thus moving from welfare to workfare). Using two series of interviews with single mothers on welfare, it then considers the consequences of such a reform for these women and their children.

AbstractThis article provides the preliminary findings of research begun in 2008 that examines, from the perspective of critical sociology, the experience of work becoming precarious. By tracing the work history of residents of the Centre-Sud neighbourhood of Montreal, the goal is to document the trajectories of precariousness, often experiences of injustice, and to analyse the imprinting of this social process on the body and the spirit. The concept of social suffering is used. The objective is to provide a comprehensive reading of the experience of precarious employment.

Analysis of key texts of Michel Foucault devoted to the pictorial aesthetic during the sixties only makes sense if it is properly reported to the epistemological issues raised by archeology, i.e. the methodical description of speeches he was developing at the same time. The use of painting as an archive, on the first hand, and the outline of an archeology of painting, on the other hand, can highlight a tension between teachings of archeology of speeches and reflections inspired by painting. The symptom of this tension consists in the different meanings – archeological or pictural – of the notion of representation. This essential discontinuity between visibilities and discourses concerns the most basic premise of Foucaldian history of thought : instead of positing the continuity of one historical time, history of thought calls for a description of a crumbled temporality of history and for a complex interweaving of « various historicities ». The confrontation of Foucault's archeology to his thought on painting thus shows one of the ways by which he finally came to propose an original philosophy of historical time. We would then hold the necessary preliminary to a possible reconstruction of the book, unfortunately lost, that Foucault devoted to the work of Manet, Le noir et la couleur.

Keywords: tourisme, immobilier, migrations, expatriation amoureuse, couples mixtes, Brésil

Public order has always held an important place in family law. A change has, however, occurred in that public order has evolved from a directive to a protective function, especially in the relationship of couples. In this paper, the authors underscore the place and the role played by public order in the patrimonial relationships of lawfully wedded and de facto spouses, both during their union and upon the dissolution of the latter.

The present paper discusses the ambiguity in the relation between violent behaviour and the way that violence is shown in video games. The goal of the analysis is to better understand the gamer's view of the violence perpetrated in video games. This understanding will not only give us a better view of the common sense knowledge revolving on the matter, but it will also enable us to evaluate the discursive coherence that the gamers have concerning that violence.

Keywords: Violence, jeux vidéo, comportements délinquants, analyse de discours, échantillon boule de neige, recherche exploratoire, Violence, video game, delinquency, discourse analysis, snowball sampling, exploratory research, Violencia, videos-juego, comportamientos delictivos, análisis del discurso, muestra “bola de nieve”, investigación exploratoria

Summary"La Nuit" by Jacques Ferron can be considered an innovative novel as far as the representation of the strangers is concerned, particularly when one studies it within the context of the Parti-pris movment and its quest for cultural unanimity with the specific objective of "the birth of québécois man" (P. Chamberland). By linking "the arrival in town" of the québécois novel to the heterotopic representation of the stranger, this text by Ferron also introduces a number of contemporary intercultural questions regarding québécois society.

Begun in the trenches, Luc Durtain's first novel, Douze cent mille, is published in 1922. An established poet who advocates unanimism and is a familiar face at the Abbaye de Créteil, Durtain belongs to the “new generation” that orbits Jules Romains and counters the ramblings of symbolism with a rekindled description of reality and the masses. Such a thematic filiation explains his embracing the populist movement along with his friends Romains and Duhamel (all three would eventually be on the jury for the Populist Novel Award). Douze cent mille is a particularly dense social fable, the goal of which is to depict the “post-war necessity” of “earning one's keep”. Opposing the excessive analyses of bourgeois novels, and beyond a mere exacting description of the working masses' daily drudgery, Durtain's work is an aggressive satire of the idle bourgeoisie and snobbism as seen through the trials besetting Bongrand, a positive hero and modern picaro. Eschewing partisanship, yet openly supportive of the socialist movement, Douze cent mille bridges the worlds of money and war. It also points to the upcoming populist doctrine, seemingly unwittingly putting forth all of its aporias.