Pierre Bourdieu est un des sociologues et intellectuels français les plus importants du XXe siècle. Il a fondé une école à laquelle plusieurs sociologues de premier plan se rattachent. Ses travaux nombreux et divers nous interpellent. Son oeuvre porte avant tout sur le pouvoir et comment...

This PhD dissertation combines the approaches of economic sociology and sociology of knowledge in order to analyze the social mechanisms underlying the conversion into organic farming. Based on an empirical study and analysis of a complete social network describing the interdependencies among...

This paper explores some of the dimensions related to poverty and exclusion, by defining a Relational Capability Index (RCI) which focuses on the quality of relationships among people and on their level of relational empowerment. This index is rooted in a relational anthropology; it insists on...

Les banque coopératives appartiennent à l'économie sociale et solidaire et sont construites sur des principes d'adhésion libre et volontaire, de gestion démocratique et de non distribution des bénéfices ? Leur modèle s'est développé en réaction à l'économie capitaliste avant de...

The Green and Blue infrastructure (Trame verte et bleue ?TVB) is a new conservation policy tool based on the notions of ecological network and corridor. The TVB's implementation process establishes the connection of multi and nested decisional and action levels and needs permanent adjustment to...

La Trame verte et bleue (TVB), nouveau dispositif d’action publique visant à enrayer la perte de biodiversité traduit un renouvellement des référentiels de justification des politiques de conservation et de leur stratégie territoriale. Il s’agit d’intégrer la planification...

This paper applies a social capital perspective to study how business units use an individual’s social capital to explore their environment and exploit resources available from individual networks. We explore this matter inductively by analysing the development and exploitation of social...

To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment,...