Didier Demazière is a French sociologist specializing in the study of

unemployment Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for Work (human activity), w ...

; in 2012, he was a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research., assigned to the ''Centre de sociologie des organisations'' (CSO, in English Centre for the Sociology of Organizations), in partnership with

Sciences Po , motto_lang = fr , mottoeng = Roots of the Future , type = Public university, Public research university''Grande école'' , established = , founder = Émile Boutmy , a ...

Research topics

For a sociology of unemployment?

As an industrial sociologist, he became interested in the field through the analysis of

, in particular, questioning the emergence of a professional identity of the

unemployed Unemployment, according to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), is people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for work during the referen ...

. As such, he is also interested in other emerging fields claiming "pseudo-professional" identities; for example, he has worked around the status of

free software Free software or libre software is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to study, change, and distribute it and any adapted versions. Free software is a matter of liberty, no ...

developer Developer may refer to: Computers *Software developer, a person or organization who develop programs/applications *Video game developer, a person or business involved in video game development, the process of designing and creating games *Web deve ...

in a free software community and questioned the reasons for such a commitment, hesitating between

volunteering Volunteering is a voluntary act of an individual or group wikt:gratis, freely giving time and labor for community service. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. O ...

activism Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in Social change, social, Political campaign, political, economic or Natural environment, environmental reform with the desire to make Social change, changes i ...

and

professionalism A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skil ...

.Bibliographie : Didier DEMAZIÈRE
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Bibliography

* ''L'injonction au professionnalisme. Analyse d'une dynamique plurielle'' (The injunction to professionalism: Analysis of a plural dynamic), with Valérie Boussard and Philip Milburn, (2010). * ''Sociologie des groupes professionnels. Acquis récents, nouveaux défis'' (Sociology of professional groups. Recent achievements, new challenges), with Charles Gadéa, (2009). * ''Sociologie des chômeurs'' (Sociology of the unemployed), (2006), () * ''Analyses textuelles en sociologie. Logiciels, méthodes, usages'' (Textual analysis in sociology. Software, methods, uses), (2006). * ''Analyser les entretiens biographiques'' (Analyzing biographical interviews), with

Claude Dubar Claude Dubar (11 December 1945 – 29 September 2015) was a French sociologist. Biography After his teaching experience at Beirut, Lebanon in 1974, he joined the French National Centre for Scientific Research and became Docent at the Lille U ...

, 2004. () * ''Le chômage. Comment peut-on être chômeur ?'' (Unemployment. How can you be unemployed?), (2003). * ''Chômeurs: du silence à la révolte. Sociologie d'une action collective'' (Unemployed: from silence to revolt. Sociology of collective action), with Maria Teresa Pignoni, (1999). * ''Le chômage de longue durée'' (Long-term unemployment), (1995). * ''La sociologie du chômage'' (The sociology of unemployment), (1995). * ''Longue durée. Vivre en chômage'' (Long-term. Living in unemployment), with Marc Helleboid and Jacques Mondoloni, (1994). * ''Le chômage en crise? La négociation des identités des chômeurs de longue durée'' (Unemployment in crisis? Negotiation of the identities of the long-term unemployed), (1992)

References

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