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Jacques Durand : The attraction of round figures and its economical consequences. Statistical laws of the classical type usually apply to phenomena presenting a certain continuity. But in many cases, there appear concentrations on some favoured values, in particular on « round figures » (for instance multiples and sub multipes of 10). The author studis under what conditions this phenomenon occurs and analyses it from two points of view ; sequence of round figures ; frequency with which these various figures occur and which can be understood only if one does not take their numeral value into account.

Raymond Ledrut : The unemployed : Social weakness and feeling of weakness. The social strength or the social weakness of an individual can be defined by certain capacities or characteristics of a given society. The social weakness of the salaried worker depends in large part on the nature of his general capacity for work, a function especially of age, sex, qualifications, state of health and profession. The present study deals with the social weakness of Toulouse unemployed who were receving compensation and resulted from an investigation conducted by interviews after a selected cross-section had been determined. The study stresses the relation between social weakness and the feeling of weakness. The effect of age on this feeling is particularly important.

Maximilien Rubel : Remarks on the concept of the proletarian party in the writings of Karl Marx. Criticism of Hegelian philosophy led Marx to the concept of a liberal party which was to outgrow itself. Beginning with adhesion to socialism, he considered political revolution as a mean of social emancipation, designed as the « historic mission » of the proletariat. The proletarian party was to be the spontaneous and autonomous creation of the working class, constituted « for itself » within its unions. The Marxist thesis about the conquest of democracy and the dictatorship of the proletariat implies a double concept of the proletarian party : the sociological notion of the worker party and the ethical notion of the communist party.