Contenu du sommaire : Transactions sociales dans la vie quotidienne

From sports practices to relationships to places. A transactional reading on the basis of windsurfing in the region of LanguedocFollowing the example of numerous littoral sports practices, the windsurfing crystallizes numerous tensions on the Languedoc coast. Due to a powerful anthropological pressure, appear on this coast numerous conflicts of use between various categories of people who want to reach the Mediterranean Sea, dunes and lagoons. This article is based on surveys and two reading grids (geographical and sociological). It wants to make sense – direction and meaning – of what has been happened and is happening, from the motives and motivations to act of windsurfers, inhabitants and local authorities to the transactions and arbitrations into the balance of powers.

Built in 1991, the theoretical framework of Boltanski and Thévenot has often been considered as heteronomous, unconcerned about current sociological issues or at worst useless to understand those phenomena it aspires to. Nevertheless, it still remains an effective tool to understand how things, human beings, (inter)actions get organized. By means of the construction of a new “city” (a main political and philosophical logic), this text defends this postulate. He demonstrates that the grammar of justification allows to analyze current problems and federate environmental claims and actions undertaken too often outside the box.

The transposition in Senegal of an imported model of a social and solidarity economy (ESS) company within a North-South transaction context. The case of Le Relais, a network of companies with a socioeconomic vocationThe transposition in Senegal of an imported model of a social and solidarity economy company within a North-South transaction context: the case of Le Relais, a network of companies with a socioeconomic vocation. In the context of North-South relations, we notice an international spread out of ideas and practices of the social solidarity and economy companies particularly in sub-Saharan African countries. The involved organisations actors all claim a so-called win-win partnership reciprocity based. Exchanges, negotiations and gift/counter-gift being the basis of the relationships according to the collaborating organisations actors, the social transaction will enlighten the analysis of the transposition of a model of company with a socioeconomic vocation from the North to the South especially from France to Senegal. The raised question is to know how that French network of companies acting in the field of social and solidarity economy manages to build up its place and keep its general institutional policy in a situation completely different from its original one ? This analysis will be based on empirical data that we got from field surveys we made about different situations of cooperation between French and Senegalese organisations.

Things that have crossed oceans: on the materiality of identity transactions
The paper reports on an ethnographic research carried out in Brazil with three Portuguese families whose transcontinental life has passed through Portugal, Mozambique and Brazil. It shows how the objects that accompanied the migrations of these families are an inherent part of what Jean Remy (2015) calls the “materiality of the social”. In their new homes, these objects provided the reproduction of the built-in habits of those of the past, helped the process of family memories assemblage and secured social status. They were the materiality of the unfolding of their lives.

Social transaction: an intermingling of emotional and rational registers
The body status and the way people relate to objects can often appear as secondary within the analysis of social life. Therefore, it is the same for emotions, presented as an irrational communication way. Our point of view differs: it highlights the importance of materialism. Emotions are specific to corporeality and thus materialism. Emotions do not emerge out of nowhere, but out of concrete contexts or situations that we directly experience.

Transactional processes and doctorate by Recognition of Prior Leaning. Lesson of an experimental approach in the field of architectureRPL makes it possible to certify the results of acquired learning in non-formal perimeters of education and training by obtaining qualifications. Within the framework of a doctorate through RPL, when higher education institutions favour the development of such a device, they are submitted to the application of a double juridical framework pertaining to the decrees of enforcement of the “2002 Act of Social Modernisation” and the rules concerning doctoral training. Practical compromises facilitating cooperation appear all along the negotiations and institutional decision-making. An analytical study makes it possible to highlight the representations and divisions between the actors concerned, as much as it demonstrates the thesis according to which, if the transactional processes are a vector of development of the RPL device, at doctoral level, it is because they make it possible to overcome the obstacles due to the conflictual tensions between the various actors.

From social fluidity to the deciding nature of the transaction
Starting from the hypothesis that we enter a fluidity regime within which in-between situations occupy a central position, the author develops the idea that concepts of passing, transversality and, on reasoning level, of blurry logic occupy a central position. According to him, the programme of social transaction is a privileged tool to understand the unsettled and uncertain situations.

What law does to victims. The “woman-victim” figure construction by the Spanish law against gender violenceIn 2004 the Spanish law on gender violence (called “law of holistic protection against gender violence”) has been approved. This text, based on a qualitative research on the judicial space created by this law, examines how its implementation – both in its more spectacular dimensions as well as in its more banal and ordinary ones – contributes to the production of a new figure on the Spanish social space: the “woman-victim”. This proposal is part of a larger research on the recent transformations of the social space of victims in Spain, which is animated by a double movement: it contains a crescent number of subjects and it gets more and more bureaucratized and normalized.