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AbstractThis paper outlines and illustrates a few of the principles that might serve as a basis for a general semiotics of furniture form, meaning a description and analysis of domestic objects and utensils as a coherent system of signs related to human activity, to physical, social, and psychological needs, as well as to material context. The approach is both structural and inductive, anchored in specific examples drawn from French and English traditions between 1620 and 1840. The Louis styles are central to the argument, which proceeds from formal characteristics of shape, structure and immediate function to questions of aesthetic, psychological, and ideological intent.
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Keywords: Ordre libéral, médias, socialisme, révolution, Confédération, construction nationale, dominion moral, religion, « classes dangereuses »
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This article is based on a sociological study that involved over a hundred individual interviews, three group interviews with inmates aged 14 to 24 at youth and adult detention facilities in France, and observations of daily interactions at such facilities. It explores how young offenders experience the transition to legal adulthood, with a focus on the move from youth facilities to adult ones. Drawing on both the sociology of age relations and the sociology of prisons, the analysis aims to understand the challenges faced by these young people as they transition to adulthood—a topic that has received relatively little attention in recent years, in contrast to the extensive literature on young people in the child welfare system. First, we discuss the pivotal moment when young offenders are required to leave juvenile facilities upon turning 18. Then, we highlight the absence of professional guidance for navigating this transition. Instead, the young people concerned tend to rely on resources that predate their incarceration, especially information on adult facilities gleaned from social media. This leads to knowledge disparities about the differences between youth and adult detention facilities. Young women, foreigners who arrived in France as unaccompanied minors, and those with relatively little education tend to find themselves most isolated and dependent on correctional services as they experience the transition to adulthood behind bars.
Keywords: youth, jeunesse, passage à la vie adulte, transition to adulthood, prison, incarceration, disparities, inégalités, parcours, life course
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This study deals with various selected aspects of the Canado-Amer-ican legal regime overseeing the ecosystem of the Great Lakes and the international stretch of the St. Lawrence River. For each aspect of the legal regime, an attempt is made to emphasize the Canadian position. There is also a comparison on the one hand between positions adopted by Canada and the United States in their conventional relations as well as in their governmental practices, and on the other, the various principles taken from international law. Thereafter the troubling question of water pollution in the Great Lakes and the international stretch of the St. Lawrence River is raised along with relevant international agreements analyzed as an example of the challenges that Canado-American management must meet. This brief study of the Canado-American legal regime relating to the Great Lakes and the international stretch of the St. Lawrence River brings up certain classical aspects of international law and emphasizes the valuable contribution of the Canado-American legal regime to the development of the law of international waterways, still in its infancy.