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Ethnic and Racial Studies

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2001

International audienc

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique

Individuals, organisations, populations: at what level(s) should we collect, analyse and interpre... more Individuals, organisations, populations: at what level(s) should we collect, analyse and interpret data? How can we envision the articulation between these different levels if we choose more than one? These questions arise in all research, but sometimes in an almost unconscious or mechanical way. This introduction outlines a number of milestones that will enable to place these questions in their historical context, to specify what we are talking about when we refer to these micro-meso-macro levels, and to put forward some of the main issues at stake in the articulation between these levels.

Revue Francaise De Sociologie, 2009

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Sociologie plurielle des comportements politiques, 2017

Associations et champ politique, 2001

Pourquoi et comment s’interroger sur le rapport au politique de ceux qu’il est convenu d’appeler ... more Pourquoi et comment s’interroger sur le rapport au politique de ceux qu’il est convenu d’appeler des militants associatifs? Pourquoi se poser la question de savoir si le fait de s’engager dans une association développe chez les individus une vision du monde plus civique, voire un intérêt pour les affaires politiques, quand on sait que les associations poursuivent les buts les plus divers et que les associations sportives ou de loisirs constituent aujourd’hui l’essentiel des effectifs? La qu..

Revue française de sociologie, 2009

... suite. AuteurCamille Hamidi du même auteur. ... suite (« Analyse des lexèmes co-occurrents da... more ... suite. AuteurCamille Hamidi du même auteur. ... suite (« Analyse des lexèmes co-occurrents dans les énoncés simples d'un texte »), que nous avons utilisé, repose sur une méthodologie de statistique textuelle (Lebart et Salem, 1994) développée par Max Reinert (1998,2000,2005 ...

Immigrants & Minorities, 2003

Voluntary associations have long been held in distrust in France, but things have changed recentl... more Voluntary associations have long been held in distrust in France, but things have changed recently. Associations are now said to develop tolerance, civic and democratic virtues, political sophistication and so on. Nevertheless, few studies focus on the interactions that actually take place in the associational context in order to demonstrate these relations. In this essay we focus on voluntary associations of migrants and we ask whether they are schools of democracy and places of politicization. We then study individual careers in order to identify the consequences of such a context for individuals. We work on three voluntary associations of young people mainly from North Africa, dealing with social action and leisure.

Politix, 2012

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2015

Depuis la fin des annees 1980, les organisations internationales ont promu de facon croissante la... more Depuis la fin des annees 1980, les organisations internationales ont promu de facon croissante la societe civile et la democratie participative dans les pays du Sud, faisant progressivement de celles-ci une condition sine qua non de leur aide financiere. Dans le tryptique liberalisation economique, promotion de l'Etat de droit et developpement, une societe civile florissante est censee offrir des garde-fous face au pouvoir politique, incitant a davantage de transparence, moins de clientelisme...

Any analysis of the reasons for engagement in collective mobilizations has for a long time been d... more Any analysis of the reasons for engagement in collective mobilizations has for a long time been dominated by this opposition between two competing traditional sources: one, the source known as the mobilization of resources, stressing the individual motivations for action, from a viewpoint marked by an analysis of rational choice; and a second source, stressing the structural reasons for engagement. The micro-sociological aspects are here privileged, but one also tries to show how various types of reasons are articulated together and combined, with some similar to motivations of an identity order, while others are based on strategical calculations. It is shown in particular that when engaging in associations linked to immigration, one of the essential issues for the parties involved is to redefine their place and their status in society, in particular while coming in their turn to help others.

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2020

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific r... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissem*nts d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Why a special issue on ‘precarity’? Philip Balsiger, Marc-André Bodet, Mathieu Brugidou, Damien Cartron, Margot Delon, Jérémy Dodeigne, Sophie duch*esne, Claire Dupuy, Olivier Fillieule, Florent Gougou, et al.

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2020

This article analyzes the political outcome of voluntary participation through three North-Africa... more This article analyzes the political outcome of voluntary participation through three North-African youth associations. The interactionist model as well as ethnographic methods disclose processes of politicisation avoidance within the larger context of voluntary associations, which differs from the results of previous quantitative studies on the link between political participation and voluntary associations. Eventually, the author comes up with a wider definition of political involvement. Similarly, individual political participation rationales are revised and redefined in terms of political competence and interactionist levels of political participation.

Sociologie plurielle des comportements politiques. Hommage a la sociologie politique plurielle qu... more Sociologie plurielle des comportements politiques. Hommage a la sociologie politique plurielle que Nonna Mayer, cette pionniere de la survey research experimentale a la francaise a pratiquee et soutenue. L'ouvrage dresse un etat des lieux des recherches et des controverses qui animent aujourd’hui ce champ de la science politique.

Politix, 2012

Though ethnographic methods seem to have gained credit and legitimacy in recent decades in France... more Though ethnographic methods seem to have gained credit and legitimacy in recent decades in France, whether or not they can produce theoretical results that are relevant beyond the case studied is still up for debate. By retracing the various steps of fieldwork research conducted on voluntary associations of young migrants, this article makes two epistemological points. In keeping with Ragin’s case analysis, it demonstrates that producing a theory based on a case study is necessarily an iterative process, as the case only becomes clear when the research is over. More specifically, it focuses on borderline cases, and conceptualizes two forms of such cases, depending on how they are used to produce theory: negative cases are used to test the robustness and the degree of expansion of an existing theory; borderline cases are used to test an existing theory at its limits in order to refine it, specify its conditions of validity, and reconstruct it.

Dictionnaire des mouvements sociaux

Ethnic and Racial Studies

HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 2001

International audienc

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique

Individuals, organisations, populations: at what level(s) should we collect, analyse and interpre... more Individuals, organisations, populations: at what level(s) should we collect, analyse and interpret data? How can we envision the articulation between these different levels if we choose more than one? These questions arise in all research, but sometimes in an almost unconscious or mechanical way. This introduction outlines a number of milestones that will enable to place these questions in their historical context, to specify what we are talking about when we refer to these micro-meso-macro levels, and to put forward some of the main issues at stake in the articulation between these levels.

Revue Francaise De Sociologie, 2009

International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society

Sociologie plurielle des comportements politiques, 2017

Associations et champ politique, 2001

Pourquoi et comment s’interroger sur le rapport au politique de ceux qu’il est convenu d’appeler ... more Pourquoi et comment s’interroger sur le rapport au politique de ceux qu’il est convenu d’appeler des militants associatifs? Pourquoi se poser la question de savoir si le fait de s’engager dans une association développe chez les individus une vision du monde plus civique, voire un intérêt pour les affaires politiques, quand on sait que les associations poursuivent les buts les plus divers et que les associations sportives ou de loisirs constituent aujourd’hui l’essentiel des effectifs? La qu..

Revue française de sociologie, 2009

... suite. AuteurCamille Hamidi du même auteur. ... suite (« Analyse des lexèmes co-occurrents da... more ... suite. AuteurCamille Hamidi du même auteur. ... suite (« Analyse des lexèmes co-occurrents dans les énoncés simples d'un texte »), que nous avons utilisé, repose sur une méthodologie de statistique textuelle (Lebart et Salem, 1994) développée par Max Reinert (1998,2000,2005 ...

Immigrants & Minorities, 2003

Voluntary associations have long been held in distrust in France, but things have changed recentl... more Voluntary associations have long been held in distrust in France, but things have changed recently. Associations are now said to develop tolerance, civic and democratic virtues, political sophistication and so on. Nevertheless, few studies focus on the interactions that actually take place in the associational context in order to demonstrate these relations. In this essay we focus on voluntary associations of migrants and we ask whether they are schools of democracy and places of politicization. We then study individual careers in order to identify the consequences of such a context for individuals. We work on three voluntary associations of young people mainly from North Africa, dealing with social action and leisure.

Politix, 2012

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2015

Depuis la fin des annees 1980, les organisations internationales ont promu de facon croissante la... more Depuis la fin des annees 1980, les organisations internationales ont promu de facon croissante la societe civile et la democratie participative dans les pays du Sud, faisant progressivement de celles-ci une condition sine qua non de leur aide financiere. Dans le tryptique liberalisation economique, promotion de l'Etat de droit et developpement, une societe civile florissante est censee offrir des garde-fous face au pouvoir politique, incitant a davantage de transparence, moins de clientelisme...

Any analysis of the reasons for engagement in collective mobilizations has for a long time been d... more Any analysis of the reasons for engagement in collective mobilizations has for a long time been dominated by this opposition between two competing traditional sources: one, the source known as the mobilization of resources, stressing the individual motivations for action, from a viewpoint marked by an analysis of rational choice; and a second source, stressing the structural reasons for engagement. The micro-sociological aspects are here privileged, but one also tries to show how various types of reasons are articulated together and combined, with some similar to motivations of an identity order, while others are based on strategical calculations. It is shown in particular that when engaging in associations linked to immigration, one of the essential issues for the parties involved is to redefine their place and their status in society, in particular while coming in their turn to help others.

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2020

HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific r... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of scientific research documents, whether they are published or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissem*nts d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. Why a special issue on ‘precarity’? Philip Balsiger, Marc-André Bodet, Mathieu Brugidou, Damien Cartron, Margot Delon, Jérémy Dodeigne, Sophie duch*esne, Claire Dupuy, Olivier Fillieule, Florent Gougou, et al.

Bulletin de Méthodologie Sociologique, 2020

This article analyzes the political outcome of voluntary participation through three North-Africa... more This article analyzes the political outcome of voluntary participation through three North-African youth associations. The interactionist model as well as ethnographic methods disclose processes of politicisation avoidance within the larger context of voluntary associations, which differs from the results of previous quantitative studies on the link between political participation and voluntary associations. Eventually, the author comes up with a wider definition of political involvement. Similarly, individual political participation rationales are revised and redefined in terms of political competence and interactionist levels of political participation.

Sociologie plurielle des comportements politiques. Hommage a la sociologie politique plurielle qu... more Sociologie plurielle des comportements politiques. Hommage a la sociologie politique plurielle que Nonna Mayer, cette pionniere de la survey research experimentale a la francaise a pratiquee et soutenue. L'ouvrage dresse un etat des lieux des recherches et des controverses qui animent aujourd’hui ce champ de la science politique.

Politix, 2012

Though ethnographic methods seem to have gained credit and legitimacy in recent decades in France... more Though ethnographic methods seem to have gained credit and legitimacy in recent decades in France, whether or not they can produce theoretical results that are relevant beyond the case studied is still up for debate. By retracing the various steps of fieldwork research conducted on voluntary associations of young migrants, this article makes two epistemological points. In keeping with Ragin’s case analysis, it demonstrates that producing a theory based on a case study is necessarily an iterative process, as the case only becomes clear when the research is over. More specifically, it focuses on borderline cases, and conceptualizes two forms of such cases, depending on how they are used to produce theory: negative cases are used to test the robustness and the degree of expansion of an existing theory; borderline cases are used to test an existing theory at its limits in order to refine it, specify its conditions of validity, and reconstruct it.

Dictionnaire des mouvements sociaux