Forsé Michel. ? Social Networks in a Village Community. From a complete diagram of acquaintance networks in a village, so-called "sociability" groups have been constructed. It is found that such groups are distinguished by certain definite social and demographic characteristics. Thus, there...

La modélisation de la ségrégation spatiale proposée dans les années 1970 par Thomas C. Schelling a marqué les esprits en raison de l’effet pervers qu’elle suggérait : une forte ségrégation pourrait être le résultat collectif de décisions individuelles qui ne visent pas à une...

In a famous experiment, Stanley Milgram showed in 1969 that, on the average, 6 links (therefore passing through 5 intermediates) were sufficient to connect two strangers in the United States. These six degrees of separation have been observed by other studies but also carrying on small samples....

Cet article analyse les résultats d’un sondage d’opinions sur la fiscalité réalisé en France par la SOFRES en 2013. On y observe tout d’abord que les Français s’accordent à penser que les impôts et les taxes sont trop élevés en France en général ou en ce qui concerne ceux...

The comparison of the 1999 and 2009 ISSP surveys shows that the financial crisis of 2008 did not greatly upset the French perceptions of wage inequality, or their wishes to correct them or even their sense of justice for their salary. Essentially, they continue to believe that inequalities in...

La modélisation de la ségrégation spatiale proposée dans les années 1970 par Thomas C. Schelling a marqué les esprits en raison de l’effet pervers qu’elle suggérait : une forte ségrégation pourrait être le résultat collectif de décisions individuelles qui ne visent pas à une...

In the 1970s, Thomas C. Schelling proposed a model which claimed to show that a high degree of spatial segregation can result from individual preferences which do not in themselves aim to achieve such a degree of collective segregation. A perverse effect seems therefore to occur. However, the...

This study deals with the four questions on economical opinions asked in the last European Values Survey (1999). Economical liberalism appears to be a little bit more widespread than interventionism in the EU. With some exceptions, it is more frequent in Northern than Southern Europe or in...

The analysis of the 1999 International Social Survey Programme opinion polls in 8 of the participating countries shows that the interviewees tend to underestimate the largest income inequalities and consider themselves closer to the average than they really are. Their macro-justice feelings are...

Opinions derive from personal interest, but also from a moral point of view which may be grasped by examining the position of a spectator who, neither in favor of that actor nor that particular conception of what a good life is, tries to judge the situation put before him or her fairly. This is...