Update of ENDL U(n,2n), U(n,gamma), U(n,f) Evaluations

L’arbitrage religieux et les conditions normatives de la « reconnaissance »

“…Par exemple au Québec, elle fut présentée par certains acteurs comme un « enjeu », alors qu'au plan juridique formel, il n'y avait pourtant aucun risque d'établissement de la pratique 7 . Plus globalement, ce débat prit une allure cosmopolitique (Beck 2006(Beck [2004 D'une part, en aval d'un acquiescement gouvernemental, le groupe requérant se serait vu octroyer une certaine autorité dans un domaine de compétences généralement imparti à l'État, et ce, via la redistribution du pouvoir juridique et son institutionnalisation à travers cette nouvelle organisation. En ce sens, la demande élevait d'un cran les possibilités offertes par la loi de 1991.…”

Socialising Animal Disease Risk: inventing Traceback and reinventing animals

“…42 Jasanoff sums this work up as demonstrating that ri is "the embodiment of deeply held cultural value is Although risk is not a new way of thinking or ordering, 44 many commentators that new categories of risks are emerging, especially with respect to food and agricultural production. 45 It has become common for social scientists to assert, following Ulrich Beck, 46 that we now live in a 'risk society'. Wealth production, through technological development, has led to the production of new risks.…”

Back from the future. Defining sustainable employment through backcasting

“…Now, the individual is left to his own devices in coping with the complexity of the world and bearing the consequences of his decisions. The irony of the situation is that all these individual decisions are embedded in complex social structures dictating of what is ought to be thought and decided (Beck, 2002). Polányi (1946, p.60) also states that human economic activity is embedded in social relationships and their actions are not aimed at defending personal interests in ensuring possession of material goods but defending social positions.…”

“…On the one hand, current tendencies support the individualisation of society (Beck, 2002). On the other, people are developing new layers of identity that ranges from local to global but research shows that the self-conception of belonging to local communities strengthens as people desire to stay "grounded in a vast world" (Goldstein, 2014, p.7).…”

“…The main concept of this glocalisation is that local economies need to meet their needs within their boundaries as far as possible and only trade surplus production (Curtis, 2003) It is also interesting that the student panel deliberately included the level of nation states in their glocalisation vision. However, leading sociologists like Castells (1997), Habermas (2001) and Beck (2012) foresee the end of nation states due to the trajectories of globalisation. In nation states administrative and legislative powers are intermeshed with the economic cycles and cultural aptitudes while this DOI: 10.14267/phd.2015010 synchronisation is disrupted in a globalised world (Habermas, 2001 (Beck, 2012, p.IX).…”