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Categories in Context
Despite the wealth of empirical research currently available on the interrelationships of gender and labor, we still know comparatively little about the forms of classification and categorization that have helped shape these social phenomena over time. Categories in Context seeks to enrich our understanding of how cognitive categories such as status, law, and rights have been produced, comprehended, appropriated, and eventually transformed by relevant actors. By focusing on specific developments in France and Germany through a transnational lens, this volume produces insights that can be applied to a wide variety of political, social, and historical contexts.
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
Digital surveillance is a daily and all-encompassing reality of life in China. This book explores how Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it. It investigates their imaginaries about surveillance and privacy from within the Chinese socio-political system. Based on in-depth qualitative research interviews, detailed diary notes, and extensive documentation, Ariane Ollier-Malaterre attempts to ‘de-Westernise’ the internet and surveillance literature. She shows how the research participants weave a cohesive system of anguishing narratives on China’s moral shortcomings and redeeming narratives on the government and technology as civilising forces. Although many ...
Waiting for Robots
An essential investigation that pulls back the curtain on automation, like AI, to show human workers’ hidden labor. Artificial Intelligence fuels both enthusiasm and panic. Technologists are inclined to give their creations leeway, pretend they’re animated beings, and consider them efficient. As users, we may complain when these technologies don’t obey, or worry about their influence on our choices and our livelihoods. And yet, we also yearn for their convenience, see ourselves reflected in them, and treat them as something entirely new. But when we overestimate the automation of these tools, award-winning author Antonio A. Casilli argues, we fail to recognize how our fellow humans are...
A Desire for Equality
Since the late 1960s, individuals rebelling against societal norms have embraced intentional communities as a means to manifest their ideals. This book combines archival research and an ethnographic approach to reveal the transformative potential of these communities.
European Employment Models in Flux
A new contribution to the debate on the evolution of European employment and social models. These models need to adjust to meet new challenges, including globalization, ageing societies, and new governance approaches at national, EU and international level. This book explores these issues through the experiences of nine EU countries.
Tocqueville's Revenge
Jonah D. Levy examines the transformation of French economic policymaking and state-society relations during the last quarter of the 20th century. He argues that France needs an active, empowering state to engage with civil society.
Politiques de l'intime
4e de couv.: Que l'on considère l'adoption du Pacs ou encore l'interdiction de fumer dans les lieux publics, nombreuses sont les illustrations indiquant que la vie privée est devenue plus que jamais une affaire politique. Le corps, la sexualité, le couple, la famille, etc. donnent lieu désormais à une réglementation foisonnante. Cette emprise croissante porte un nom outre-Atlantique : le soft paternalism. Ce mouvement repousse des frontières instituées depuis des décennies, qui ont consacré une partition privé/public sur laquelle s'est érigée la société industrielle. Avec pour terrain d'enquête privilégié le monde de l'entreprise, cet ouvrage analyse le sens et la portée d...
Socio, n° 7/2016
Ce dossier de la revue Socio propose d'interroger les sciences sociales sur un enjeu particulier : la redéfinition des frontières de la sphère privée et du politique, question dont divers domaines (du droit, de l’Internet, des études de genre, de l’éthique, de la philosophie...) se sont d’ores et déjà emparés, de façon séparée mais non moins active.
