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.

Chemical substances on the frontiers of health security: Metrological controversies over endocrine disruptors and low doses:

Abstract: The issue of low doses already has a long history. Initially linked with radioactivity, it can be traced through a series of metrological controversies about the evaluation of health and environmental risks. Building on recent developments, including the increased public profile of endocrine disruptors, this article offers an exploration of the different epistemic logics at work in research environments and of the expertise brought to bear on low doses. Based on an analysis of documents, participant observation in groups of experts, and a series of interviews, it examines the cognitive support and techniques used by the actors, and the practicalities of what some of them have called a ‘paradigm shift’, leading to the redefinition of the concepts and tools of toxicology in the 21st century.

The Cognitive, Ecological, and Developmental Origins of Self-Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder.

Abstract: Self-disturbance is recognized as a key symptom of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Although it is the source of significant distress and significant costs to society, it is still poorly specified. In addition, current research and models on the etiology of BPD do not provide sufficient evidence or predictions about who is at risk of developing BPD and self-disturbance, and why. The aim of this review is to lay the foundations of a new model inspired by recent developments at the intersection of social cognition, behavioral ecology, and developmental biology. We argue that the sense of agency is an important dimension to consider when characterizing self-disturbances in BPD. Second, we address the poorly characterized relation between self-disturbances and adverse life conditions encountered early in life. We highlight the potential relevance of Life-History Theory-a major framework in evolutionary developmental biology-to make sense of this association. We put forward the idea that the effect of early life adversity on BPD symptomatology depends on the way individuals trade their limited resources between competing biological functions during development.

Reflection: Snatched Commensality: To eat or not to eat together in times of Covid-19 in France

Abstract: During the Covid-19 pandemic, the French Government imposed a strict lockdown from March 17th to May 11th 2020. These extraordinary times challenged the social norm of commensality, a practice that...

Quitter l’entreprise pour renouer avec le travail ? Les parcours de désengagement de cadres d’un institut d’études

Abstract: Peu explore sous l’angle du travail, l’univers des instituts de sondages constitue un exemple eclairant des transformations qui touchent le monde du travail contemporain. Au croisement de la sociologie du travail, du parcours et du genre, l’enquete ethnographique menee dans l’une des societes du secteur aupres de ses cadres depasse les postures de malaise ou de retrait classiquement observees dans cette categorie : en s’interessant a celles et ceux qui entrent en rupture avec leur entreprise et leur travail, elle devoile ainsi le processus qui conduit certains salaries, et particulierement des femmes, a quitter sciemment l’ensemble des protections offertes par le salariat et leur statut. Cette desaffiliation silencieuse est toutefois temporaire car les individus rencontres restent contraints de travailler et beneficient des ressources leur permettant de bifurquer vers un travail valorisant sur le plan identitaire mais qui prend des formes moins prestigieuses et protectrices. Ces bifurcations revelent egalement des inegalites entre cadres et, surtout dans le cas des femmes, une fragilisation des parcours a plus long terme.

Unwanted «Gypsies». The restriction of cross-border mobility and the stigmatisation of Romani families in interwar Western Europe

Abstract: This article analyses the convergence of European anti-Gypsy policies between the wars. It Calls up for examination the attempts at rapprochement and the first stages of transnational collaboration before World War One, as well as the role played by cross-border movement in consolidating a stereotypical image of the "Gypsy" as a category. The failure of immigration control policies in the 1920s and the diplomatic crises occasioned by a number of notable incidents at the Franco-Belgian border led to an international agreement to put an end to movement that brought into question the sovereign order of nation states. A deeper analysis of these agreements and of the legal terms employed shows the application of particular police regulation in cases of specific families and a considerable investment on the part of the highest police authorities in the resolution of a what had become a national question. The final section analyses the effects of these regulations on Romani families' future: the eroding of their social conditions, and the endless exile to which some found themselves condemned.