Didier Demazière Explained

Didier Demazière
Birth Name:	Demazière
Nationality:	French
Known For:	Sociologist
Employer:	Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France)
Occupation:	Senior Researcher

Didier Demazière is a French sociologist specializing in the study of unemployment; in 2012, he was a Senior Researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research.,^[1] assigned to the Centre de sociologie des organisations (CSO, in English Centre for the Sociology of Organizations), in partnership with Sciences Po.

Research topics

For a sociology of unemployment?

As an industrial sociologist, he became interested in the field through the analysis of unemployment, in particular, questioning the emergence of a professional identity of the unemployed.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 developer in a free software community and questioned the reasons for such a commitment,^[2] hesitating between volunteering, activism and professionalism.^[3]

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)

Notes and References

1. Didier Demazière
2. Didier DEMAZIERE
3. Bibliographie : Didier DEMAZIÈRE