Sociologie

Et si les femmes avaient de bonnes raisons de détester les hommes ? Et si la colère à l'égard des hommes était en réalité un chemin...

This is the "Das Kapital" of the 20th century - an essential text, and the main theoretical work of the Situationists. Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative....

Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go tragically awry? Author James C. Scott analyzes failed cases of large-scale authoritarian plans in a variety of fields.... 

In The Nordic Theory of Everything, Partanen compares and contrasts life in the United States with life in the Nordic region, focusing on four key relationships....

In his landmark best seller The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell redefined how we understand the world around us....

We live in the age of the algorithm. Tracing the arc of a person's life, Cathy O'Neil exposes the black-box models that shape our future, both as individuals and as a society....

"La crise. On ne parlait que de ça, mais sans savoir réellement qu'en dire, ni comment en prendre la mesure..."

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are responding. They're dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage....

Levitt and co-author Stephen J. Dubner show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives: how people get what they want, or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing....

Dans cette méditation tout en intimité et en sensualité, l'anthropologue Françoise Héritier traque ces choses agréables auxquelles notre être profond aspire, ces images et...

Why do some ideas thrive while others die? And how do we improve the chances of worthy ideas....

Former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas takes us into the inner sanctums of a new gilded age, where the rich and powerful fight for equality and justice any way they can - except ways that threaten the social order and their position atop it....