Gresco - Université de Poitiers

GRESCO
GROUPE DE RECHERCHES SOCIOLOGIQUES SUR LES SOCIÉTÉS CONTEMPORAINES
EA 3815
LEARNING PROCESSES AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES
GENDER
SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE
ARTS AND CULTURES
COLLECTIVE SOLIDARITY
WORK AND EMPLOYMENT
TERRITORIES
SOCIAL CONTROL
CATEGORIES OF THOUGHT, CATEGORIE OF ACTION
GRESCO is a research centre attached to the Universities of Poitiers and
Limoges. Founded in 2008, the research centre is currently headed by Choukri
Ben Ayed (Limoges) and Gilles Moreau (Poitiers).
The GRESCO team works in three research fields :
“Development and certifications : sociology of learning”
This first research thematic focuses on learning processes, mechanisms and
systems within structures (schools, training centres, businesses, etc.), which
validate and certify learning and, on a wider level, within traditional spheres of
socialization (families, districts, community groups, businesses, jobs, etc.). In other
words, this thematic field comprises the analysis of trajectories of development
that the phases of any learning process impose on individuals and groups to which
an individual belongs.
“Professionalization, expertise and reforms : sociology of categories and classifications”
The study of categories and classifications is a fundamental approach of sociology ,
which clearly falls within the Durkheimian approach (categories and classifications
as institutions). It tackles naturalized categories by questioning, on the one hand,
the conditions of their invention and their institutionalization and by reflecting, on
the other hand, on cognitive and political representations of work and their ability
to form social groups and to generate social issues.
“Cultures, territories and inequalities: sociology of social spaces”
The core issue of this third research field lies at the point where cultures, territories
and inequalities meet. The idea of culture is addressed here in its polysemy: it
refers just as much to issues on cultural practices, appropriation and identification,
as to the analysis of cultural policies. The idea of territory is also envisaged
here in a wider sense. Territory is in particular viewed in terms of demographic
changes, which affect its social composition, its activities, its development and its
representations.
Key words
Learning; Higher Education; Socialization; sustainable development; Professionalization; Reforms;
Specialists; Rurality; Public Utilities; Culture; Heritage.
Faculty & Staff
34
Main members
13
Associate members
33
PhD Students
13
Doctoral thesis
5
HDR (accreditation to direct PhD)
International research projects
2014-2018
Project on “New forms of work mobilizations in globalization” funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council (Canada) and led by Martine d’Amours (Laval University, Québec) – Comparative (Québec,
France and Mexico) and multidisciplinary research (sociology, economy, management, industrial relations) –
Team: 10 researchers, 2 PhD candidates and 2 post-doctorate researchers:
- Martine d’Amours, Laval University
- Frédéric Hanin, Laval University
- Guy Bellemare, University of Québec
- Louise Briand, University of Québec
- Alex Covarrubias, Colegio de Sonora
- Leticia Pogliaghi,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Christian Imdorf, University of Basel
- Nadia Lamamra, IFFP of Lausanne
- Regula Leemann, HEP of Zurich
- Mona Granato, BIBB of Bonn
Main collaborations
The team working on the project «The Effects of Marketization on Societies (TEMS)» is
led by Prof. Ian Greer (University of Greenwich), and includes Dr Lefteris Kretsos, Dr
Charles Umney, and Ms Maria Mantynen.
Main partners, members of the CR32 group of the International Association of
French-speaking Sociologists :
- Jean-François Orianne, University of Liège;
- Marc Perrenoud, University of Lausanne;
- Grazia Scarfo, Ecole Hassania des Travaux Publics of Casablanca;
- Romina Deriu, University of Sassari.
International PhD supervision
DUMAINE Jean Nickolas (since October 2011):
“Public action and non-standard jobs’ quality: comparative analysis of impact
of the institutional frame on temporary employment in France and Québec”,
supervisors: Christian Papinot (Prof. in Sociology, University of Poitiers) and
Martine d’Amours (Prof. in Sociology, Laval University). PhD funded by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
GROUPE DE RECHERCHES SOCIOLOGIQUES SUR LES SOCIÉTÉS CONTEMPORAINES
EA 3815
UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS
8 rue René Descartes
Bat E14 - TSA 81118 - 86073 Poitiers cedex 09
UNIVERSITÉ DE LIMOGES
39E, Rue Camille-Guérin – 87036 Limoges
[email protected]
http://gresco.labo.univ-poitiers.fr