Politics and people
Politics is, in general, more and more subject to peopolization. If this movement is difficult to date, we often remember the year 1992, when Ségolène Royal, Minister of the Environment, had …
Category: Sociology
The demographic balance of the city – Louis Wirth
Louis Wirth, one of the representatives of the Chicago School, notes in this excerpt the decline of births in the urbanized parts of the Western world. To this end, he …
For Eugène Guillevic, the city is what matters most
“Yet the city is what matters most, what must matter most. Because nothing is more about ourselves than that. When it changes, it is we who make it change Eugène …
Birth and history of the newspaper
Ten percent to 12% of Sciences Po students choose to become journalists. Journalism occupies a predominant place in contemporary societies, a “fourth power”. Alexis de Tocqueville in 1833 already identified …
The end of the village – Jean-Pierre le Goff
For Jean-Pierre le Goff, the village is dead. His sentence is without appeal:”The village as a community gathering in the same place housing, work and what we call today leisure …
Linguistics and semiotics: definitions and principles
Semiotics and Linguistics Definitions the distinction between semiology and linguistics is as follows: Semiology is the study of all non-linguistic systems of communication, the study of all non-linguistic systems of …