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Showing papers by "Laurent Thévenot published in 2009"


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TL;DR: This postscript discusses a variety of ways in which humans are committed to their environment — from public stances to the closest forms of proximity — and in pursuit of a kind of ‘good’.
Abstract: Standardization has been extended far beyond the industrial world. It participates in governing our lives and the lives of all living entities by producing public guarantees in the form of standards. Social studies of medicine have provided a precious contribution to advancing standardization as a topic of inquiry, most notably through investigations of the relationship between ‘regulation’ and ‘objectivity’, drawn together in the concept of the standard. This postscript discusses this contribution from the point of view of ‘regimes of engagement’, that is, a variety of ways in which humans are committed to their environment — from public stances to the closest forms of proximity — and in pursuit of a kind of ‘good’. These regimes are distinguished according to the good they promise, as well as the degree to which the guarantee being offered can be held in common. The discussion in this postscript extends the critique raised by scholarship on standards by taking into account the oppression and subjugation...

194 citations


01 May 2009
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify a set of problématiques relative to politiques, inégalités sociales, besoins en qualifications, capital humain, discriminations.
Abstract: Parce qu’elles portent sur des aspects très divers de l’itinéraire de mobilité des personnes interrogées, les enquêtes sur la Formation et la Qualification Professionnelle (FQP) ont été employées, depuis plus de 40 ans, à dresser des tableaux généraux de la société française, à porter des jugements sur son évolution et à nourrir des débats sur les politiques publiques. L’exploitation qui en est faite ici est quelque peu différente : on s’intéresse à la série longue des questionnaires et des études exploitant ces enquêtes selon diverses thématiques de recherche, afin d’y découvrir l’évolution des questionnements sur la société française et ses politiques. On identifie ainsi quatre problématiques relativement cohérentes au regard des politiques, des outils statistiques et des théories scientifiques qui s’y rapportent : inégalités sociales, besoins en qualifications, capital humain, discriminations.

2 citations