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La Vicariance
Alain Berthoz présente dans ce nouveau livre un concept clé, la « vicariance ». Lorsqu’un de nos sens en remplace un autre qui fait défaut (lorsque nous tâtonnons dans le noir, ou lorsque nous devons, suite à un accident, suppléer un organe défaillant), lorsque nous utilisons plusieurs stratégies pour parvenir à un même but, lorsque nous multiplions nos identités pour naviguer dans le monde virtuel d’Internet ou des jeux vidéo, nous nous en remettons à des processus vicariants mis en place au cours de l’évolution. Cette vicariance, possibilité de remplacer une fonction par une autre ou de déléguer une fonction ou une action à un avatar virtuel, est bien une stratég...
The School at the Frontiers of Modernity
The aim of this book is to discuss the emergent forms of educational processes observed in the context of late modernity, mobilizing the contribution of the social sciences. Through a plurality of educational subjects, this publication provides an overview of the contribution of schooling to the construction of late modernity.
Renouveler la démocratie
Comment sortir du « tout se vaut » qui fait le lit du n’importe quoi ? Comment renouer avec l’idée qu’il existe une rationalité commune à tous, par-delà les clivages individuels et culturels ? C’est le fondement même de la vraie démocratie. Pour Raymond Boudon, le relativisme ambiant fournit un terreau favorable à une conception cynique des relations sociales et politiques, à la réapparition des fondamentalismes. Il nourrit le désarroi. Il légitime les confusions entre la morale et la politique, la foi et la raison, le privé et le public. La démocratie n’est plus alors qu’un système dominé par les conflits d’intérêts et la raison du plus fort. Face à cett...
The Pedagogical Imagination
French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic’s identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful representations of classroom reality, The Pedagogical Imagination takes a different approach. In this study of French education and republicanism as represented in twenty-first-century French literature and film, Leon Sachs shifts our attention from “what” literature and film say about education to “how” they say it. He argues that the most important literary and filmic treatments of ...
Beyond Relativism
This book argues that critical realism offers the theory of cognitive rationality a real way of overcoming the limitations of methodological individualism by recognising both the agents' - and the social structure's - causal powers and liabilities. Cynthia Lins Hamlin persuasively argues that critical realism represents a better safeguard against the relativism which springs from the conflation of social reality and our ideas about it. This is an important book for sociologists and anyone working in the social sciences, and for all those concerned with the methodology, and philosophy, of social science.
Human Capital Over the Life Cycle
. . . I am convinced that it should occupy a high position on the desk of policymakers. . . This book constitutes a good state-of-the-art study in this field and paves the way for further research in this direction. Marie-Claire Villeval, Economic Record This attractive publication is carried out as a clear attempt to gain access to a wider audience, relaxing formal and technical details, which makes the lecture easier. . . An international comparison of literature or educational and labour experiences is provided in every contribution in the book, helping to obtain a wider perspective of the problems tackled. Carmen García and Julio López, Education Economics This book makes a novel contr...
Making Democratic Theory Democratic
This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character of political values, the relation between ultimate ends and the intermediate ends that are sought by constitutions, and a reconsideration of the meaning of the rule of law itself. The essays are inspired by the demystifying realism of Max Weber and Hans Kelsen, including explications of their views on law, constitutions, and the rule of law. The book will be of interest to social and political theorists, philosophers of law, and legal theorists, and for discussions of democratic theory, the administrative state, constitutionalism, and justice, as well as to readers of Weber and Kelsen.
International Studies in Educational Inequality, Theory and Policy
Inequality is a marked and persistent feature of education systems, both in the developed and the developing worlds. Major gaps in opportunity and in outcomes have become more critical than in the past, thanks to the knowledge economy and globalization. The pursuit of equity as a goal of public policy is examined in this book through a series of national case-studies. The book covers many different global contexts from the wealthiest to some of the poorest nations on earth. It therefore offers a broad range of different theoretical and methodological approaches, and brings together extensive international experience in equity policy.
Methodological Individualism
This book highlights the theoretical bases of methodological individualism, as defined and developed in the writings of its founders and early advocates. Making available in English texts by Menger, Schumpeter, Simmel and Weber, it provides key insights into one of the essential methodological paradigms in the social sciences.
