Search results for "Controverse"

L'homéopathie, des désaccords entre scientifiques-Comprendre les divergences

2020

A research analysis is performed on the representations of scientists about homeopathy. It is based on interviews conducted with an audience of doctors / researchers. This study attempts to understand and explain the reasons for the differences among scientists over this societal controversy. At the end of this work, proposals for improving science-society communication are formulated.

Vaccination en général et vaccination anti-COVID

2021

This book presents a societal research analysis of an exploratory study of the general public concerning the obstacles to vaccination. It highlights the fact that sociological anchors would be determinant in the decision making regarding vaccination. This study more broadly invites us to consider modern and post-modern anchors as possible determinants in the positions of individuals in relation to various subjects of science-society.

La préservation de l'environnement nocturne : les enjeux d'une controverse sociotechnique

2013

This communication explains the birth of an environmental problem, light pollution, understood as a socio-technical controversy. Over forty years, in support of the actor-network approach, it traces the conditions of its emergence, transformation and dissemination to local, national and transnational levels, and through various professional disciplines. Schematically, "environmentalists" uphold a holistic approach of "nocturnité" and define artificial light as a pollutant. Facing them, the "technicist" defend a segmented approach and define artificial light as a nuisance. The implementation of this controversy on the political agenda leads to institutional decisions that grasp it with diffi…

(Ré)concilier éclairage urbain et environnement nocturne : les enjeux d’une controverse sociotechnique

2014

International audience; Our paper explains the birth of an environmental problem, i.e. light pollution, viewed as a socio-technical controversy. Supported by the actor-network approach, it traces over forty years the conditions of its emergence, transformation and dissemination to local, national and transnational levels and through various professional disciplines. Schematically, “environmentalists” uphold a holistic approach of “nocturnality” and define artificial light as a pollutant. Facing them, the “technicist” defends a segmented approach and defines artificial light as a nuisance. The introduction of this controversy into the political agenda leads to institutional decisions that gr…

Le circuit automobile n'existe pas. Une sociologie des divergences socio-environnementales

2022

Etre et ne pas être son cerveau. Controverses sur l'émotion. Neurosciences et sciences humaines

2018

International audience

Science en société

2019

Cet ouvrage collectif a pour enjeu d'identifier les représentations sociales mobilisées dans certains cas de controverses socio-scientifiques et certaines questions sciences-société. Cette caractérisation permet de mettre en lumière le rôle que peuvent avoir les représentations sociales sur les orientations paradigmatiques des différents publics analysés : scientifiques, enseignants, élèves.

Du passé faisons table rase ?, un vandalisme épistémologique ?

2014

La reception du livre de Jean Chesneaux (Du passe faisons table rase ?) par les historiens francais debouche sur le heurt de deux manieres de pratiquer l’histoire du mouvement ouvrier. L’une, academique, oppose a l’autre sa radicalite, son engagement. Celui-ci participerait d’un andalisme epistemologique. Revenir sur cette polemique restitue une part du paysage intellectuel de l’histoire dans la decennie 1970.