Contenu du sommaire

François Chazel : Considerations on the nature of anomia. A thorough analysis of anomia implies an examination of global society : it cannot elude considering social order, its basis and its nature. So that Merton having too much insisted on the individual consequences of anomia neglected some of its essential characteristics : anomia is, in the first place, as Durkheim demonstrated with maestria, a weakening, or so to speak, a disintegration of the social organization. It is also accompanied by a determination of the symbolic system the importance of which was stressed by T. Parsons. Even in a situation of relative anomia, which may be that of France presently, Merton's criteria are insufficient in spite of their real interest : the examination of global society and the study of collective symbolism remaining indispensable.

Madeleine Guilbert, Nicole Lowit, Joseph Creusen : Time-budget and the study of daily-life time schedules. Using materials of a time-budget inquiry which has given rise to two articles published in this Review, the authors expose the method which allowed them to draw facts, this time not concerning the duration of the occupations but their time schedules. The notion of an occupation of leading importance at a given time, in a given group, offers them the possibility of comparing the passing of daily-life time schedules, on Wednesdays and Sundays, according to the sex and socio-professional categories of persons on which the inquiry was carried out.

Eshan Naraghi : Sociology and society in Iran. The author shows how during the transformation of Iran in the last decades, the development of social sciences has corresponded to transformations in Society.

Alain Kling : Hemophilia of values or influence through sympathy ? An experiment. The tendency of many people to dislike those whose opinions vary from theirs (homophilia) has as counterpart the tendency of some persons to accept through sympathy the opinions of those they like (influence through sympathy). But these dynamics do not appear in the same type of personalities. The experiment carried out tends to show that influentiability appears in personalities with no rigidity, while homophilia appears only after a certain degree of rigidity, beyond which finaly, none of the two dynamics work at all.

Raymond BOUDON : On the notion of « function ».