Une vie sociale encore bien normée. L’exemple d’un campus universitaire français

Based on a questionnaire distributed to a selected sample of students, teachers and members of the administrative and service staff of a French university campus, we have shed light on the normative standards common to founding a social life. This observation casts doubt on the thesis suggesting tha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hervé Marchal, Jean-Marc Stébé
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université Catholique de Louvain 2013-06-01
Series:Recherches Sociologiques et Anthropologiques
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/rsa/961
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Summary:Based on a questionnaire distributed to a selected sample of students, teachers and members of the administrative and service staff of a French university campus, we have shed light on the normative standards common to founding a social life. This observation casts doubt on the thesis suggesting that a vast gamut of social life, and most particularly in urban environments, is in a state of generalized “meltdown” today, synonymous with a collapse of collective reference points and the dissolution of normative reference frames. In other words, the article shows that an institutional urban territory like the university still belongs to a Durkheimian-Goffmanian world, i.e. a world structured around consolidated ways of being.
ISSN:1782-1592
2033-7485