Graduate program in Social Sciences

This thesis focuses on the practice of cumulating elective mandates in the French political field and the effects of the law that came into force in 2017 prohibiting parliamentarians from cumulating local executive functions, such as those of mayor or president of a regional or departmental council.

Passed in 2014, this law is placed in a double historical dynamic of denunciation of “cumulards” and restriction, by successive laws, of a practice that is nevertheless central in the political field.

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By crossing sociology of post-colonial migrations and political science of crises, the thesis proposes to focus on the period of "fluid time" that constitutes the transition from colonial Algeria at war to independent Algeria. The cooperation policy, legislated from the Evian ceasefire agreements and renegotiated over the course of the decade, provides in particular for the provision by France of teaching staff. At a time when the war period was closing legally and when the majority of French people were leaving Algeria, some French people decided to migrate there temporarily, to stay there, or to return there. How to account, with the help of the social sciences, for this instructive French presence which appears to the contemporary observer as improbable?

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Our research is an attempt to reconstruct a specific production chain in insurance, that of the pricing of "automotive" coverage, with the aim of understanding the articulation of the different spaces involved in the process.

Organized horizontally (i.e. the junction points in the process concern only two components at a time), these spaces are occupied by individuals who are sometimes clearly located (e.g. the general insurance agent) sometimes difficult to locate spatially (e.g. “online” claims handlers, actuaries in “offices”).

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The maritime sector today transports 80% of world trade by volume. In addition, two-thirds of the world's population lives on the coasts. Based on this observation, studying the structure of the maritime network and its interactions with local economies raises many questions of regional and geographical economics.

This dissertation uses the tools of statistical graph analysis (topology, random graphs, stochastic block models, etc.) and panel econometrics with the aim of exploring container shipping between 1977 and 2016 in Europe.

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Following the health crisis and the generalization of telework in the tertiary sector, companies see an opportunity to reduce their property costs by transforming the spatial and managerial organization of offices.

They do this through the implementation of the flex-office which consists of the elimination of appointed positions, to allocate fewer offices than employees in order to optimize the occupation of space by a system of rotation between the different places. possibilities of work, namely mainly home and business.

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My thesis proposes to update and question the founding works of Erving Goffman and Howard Becker in the field of interactionist sociology of deviance by applying them to a specific field of inquiry, that of virtual French communities of fans of ageplay.

Ageplay is an erotic role-playing game that generally puts in a consensual relationship an adult who "regresses", that is to say who performs physically, mentally and / or emotionally at a younger age than his, with another adult who takes care of this person named "little" as a child, it is called "caregiver". 

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