School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Politics. The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.

Subjective disorientation as a metacognitive feeling

Abstract: There is a large body of literature on disorientation, ranging from behavioral studies to the analysis of search and rescue operations. However, the subjective side of disorientation remains insuff...

Do problema do social ao social como problema: elementos para uma leitura da sociologia pragmática francesa

Abstract: O objetivo do presente artigo e analisar como a sociologia pragmatica francesa, tal como se constituiu na decada de 1980, traz uma novidade com relacao aos autores que podemos, hoje, chamar de neoclassicos (Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel, Norbert Elias, Anthony Giddens, Ervin Goffman). Atraves da exposicao de alguns dos principais expoentes da aludida corrente da sociologia francesa como Bruno Latour, Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thevenot e Francis Chateauraynaud pretendo mostrar como, diferentemente dos neoclassicos que buscavam enfrentar o problema do tratamento do social como substância (ou como coisa) por intermedio das relacoes (advogando que as relacoes sao anteriores aos termos), os autores contemporâneos da sociologia pragmatica tentam trata-lo como fluxos problematicos em constante movimento. Eis porque digo haver uma passagem do problema do social para o tratamento do social como problema, isto e: o social deixa de ser o fator explicativo do mundo social e torna-se aquilo que deve ser explicitado e explicado por meio do modo como os atores, em meio aos momentos criticos e situacoes indeterminadas, fazem, desfazem e refazem suas associacoes heterogeneas. Palavras-chave: sociologia pragmatica francesa, Bruno Latour, Luc Boltanski, Francis Chateauraynaud. Abstract The aim of this paper is to analyze how the French pragmatic sociology, as the way it has been constituted in the 1980’s, brings out a novelty with respect to the authors that we today call the neo-classical (Pierre Bourdieu, Harold Garfinkel, Norbert Elias, Anthony Giddens, Ervin Goffman). By exposing some of the leading exponents of the alluded current in French sociology as Bruno Latour, Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thevenot and Francis Chateauraynaud I intend to show how, unlike the neo-classical way of dealing the problem of treating the social as a substance by means of relations (that is, advocating that relations precede the terms), the contemporary authors of pragmatic sociology try to treat the social itself as an entangled of problematic movements in constant flow. This is why I sustain that there is a passage from the problem of the social to deal with the social as a problem, that is: the social ceases to be the explanatory factor of the social world and becomes what shall be clarified and explained by the way actors, amid their critical moments and indeterminate situations, do, undo and redo their heterogenic associations. Keywords: French pragmatic sociology, Bruno Latour, Luc Boltanski, Francis Chateauraynaud.

The Legal Status of Labour from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century: Russia in a Comparative European Perspective*

Abstract: Since at least the eighteenth century, free labour in “the West” has been contrasted with serf labour in Russia and “eastern Europe”. This paper intends to call that view into question and to show that serfdom was never officially institutionalized in Russia, and that the regulations usually invoked to justify that opinion were actually intended not to “bind” the peasantry but to identify noble estate owners, as distinct from nobles in state service or the “bourgeoisie”. However, it is a matter not only of legal definitions. This paper studies how the tsarist administration, nobles, and peasants themselves made use of courts of law in order to contest ownership titles and, on that basis, the obligations and legal status of peasants and workers. Great changes had occurred in their legal status before the official abolition of serfdom in 1861, in outcomes that were rather similar to those which had been recently achieved in the “second serfdom” in Prussia, Lithuania, and Poland. In turn, that means that such labour contracts and institutions were not the opposites of “free labour” contracts and institutions, which placed many more constraints on workers than is usually acknowledged. To prove the point, we compare tsarist regulations with the Master and Servants Acts and indenture in Britain and its Empire and with French regulations on labour, domesticity, and day labourers.

Planarity and edge poset dimension

Abstract: Different areas of discrete mathematics lead to instrinsically different characterizations of planar graphs. Planarity is expressed in terms of topology, combinatorics, algebra or search trees. More recently, Schnyder's work has related planarity to partial order theory. Acyclic orientations and associated edge partial orders lead to a new characterization of planar graphs, which also describes all of the possible planar embeddings. We prove here that there is a bijection between bipolar plane digraphs and 2-dimensional N- free partial orders. We give also a characterization of planarity in terms of 2-colorability of a graph and provide a short proof of a previous result on planar lattices.