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Antoine Volodine's novel Alto Solo (1991) raises two fundamental questions : “Who am I ?” and “Who are you ?” These questions address the notion of the self and the other in relation to geographic and psychological place as well as that of speech. The answers to these questions are intrinsic to the distinct characteristics of individual, interacting members of society, which in Alto Solo stir feelings of otherness, anonymity, and even of exile among the fictional characters. The responses to these two questions, whether overt or implicit, yield an aura of social disjunction and alienation, and hence questions of the identity of the individual characters who seem largely remote, their identities more collective than personal.
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Comment une personne peut-elle rester identique dans le temps malgré les changements qu’elle traverse au cours de sa vie ? L’identité personnelle, abordée dans ce mémoire comme phénomène temporel, renvoie au fait qu’une personne reste la « même » ou « soi-même » à travers le temps. Cette permanence dans le temps ne prend toutefois pas le sens de l’invariabilité ou de l’immuabilité. Une personne qui semble être la même qu’hier et dont on s’attend à ce qu’elle reste identique demain a connu et connaîtra inévitablement des transformations autant physiques, psychologiques que morales. Confronté à cette variabilité, on ne met pourtant pas en doute l’identité indéniable de tout un chacun. L’identité personnelle se phénoménalise donc comme une forme de permanence dans le changement. Si l’expérience …
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Contemporary societies are characterized by a huge circulation of all kind of knowledges. This core issue includes two major effects on the craft of sociology : on the one hand, sociologists need a great awareness about the meanings and the social impacts of their assessments, on the other hand they must plan proceedings that may authorize the maintenance of their critical posture. The analysis of youth social participation in France exemplifies the difficulties with embedded discourses shaped by policy makers, Public Administration and social actors : we find out the same notions of autonomy, project, commitment and responsibility in the three considered instances. Based on an in progress research, this paper will propose an approach that would obviate these lexical coincidences.
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Analysing the life-histories of 16 women collected in a region of France in 2002-03, this article reveals that the meaning individuals give to their family history is based on the meaning they give to time. Three notions of time characterising a type of individuation or relationship of the individual to society were found. The first is founded on continuity and tradition; the organisation of the family depends on the group and the individual exists only in relation to the group. The second—an expression of modern family organisation—is characterised by a focus on mastering one's life; the individual seeks her autonomy in her own existential experiences. Finally in the third the individual tries not only to be autonomous but also literally self-referential. She refuses to accept any external constraints and, ironically, denies time except as it is simply a dimension of the present. In this way the person defines a contemporary individuality in the full meaning of the term.