Didier Demazière is a French sociologist specializing in the study of

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; in 2012, he was a Senior Researcher at the

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., assigned to the ''Centre de sociologie des organisations'' (CSO, in English Centre for the Sociology of Organizations), in partnership with

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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 the proportion of people above a specified age (usually 15) not being in paid employment or self-employment but currently available for Work (hu ...

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

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developer in a

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and questioned the reasons for such a commitment, hesitating between

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and

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.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, 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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