This article intends to understand the mechanisms underlying the receiver reactions towards a taboo advertising stimulus. For this purpose, a qualitative study was conducted in two different cultural contexts. This study reveals the importance of the normative social influence and the ambivalent...

This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

This article examines the contribution of the identification process in building up a community of practice. Despite the presence of artefacts and activities typical of the emergence of a common identity, the transformation of the network under study into a community of practice appears...

Cette revue de littérature pluridisciplinaire (management, économie, sociologie, sciences de l’information) s’intéresse aux caractéristiques, aux pratiques et aux rôles d’un acteur spécifique du champ de l’industrie culturelle : la critique de presse. Cette synthèse vise à...

The paper addresses the issue of rethinking the welfare state as a part of a broader national system of social protection (NSSP) and a mode of societal regulation. In order to overcome the theoretical limits of bottom-up comparative analysis of welfare states, one builds a structural model of...

In Senegal, marriage and procreation are strongly associated in the social representations. With the postponement of the age at first marriage, childbearing outside marriage is becoming more frequent. A comparison of two contrasting populations, one from the capital (Dakar) and one from a rural...

In contrast to health shocks, mortality shocks do not only induce direct costs such as medical and funeral expenses and possibly income loss, but also reduce the number of consumption units in the household. Using data from Indonesia, it is shown that the economic costs related to the death of...

We study the psychosocial determinants of self-assessed health in order to explain social inequalities in health in France. We use a unique general population survey to assess the respective impact on self-assessed health status of subjective perceptions of social capital, social support, and...

Much empirical research found that fostered children are less likely than others to attend school, which suggests that fostering may be disadvantaged human capital investment. This paper tries to analyze the impact of child fostering on school enrollment in rural Madagascar. We examine firstly...

The urban African societies are in the process of transformation: the education of women is progressing, the labor market is transforming, in particular the number of wage earners is decreasing, the age of marriage is postponed, and women participate more and more in economic life. Despite the...