Regulations | Pacte Laboratory

Presentation

The Regulations team comprises researchers belonging to various social-science disciplines.

Research carried out by this team focuses on the social processes of producing and assimilating the knowledge, rules and representations that prevail in various social worlds, on the work of actors involved in these worlds, the social properties and careers of such actors, their practices or customs, and lastly on the instruments and technical devices by which their activity is regulated and coordinated.

The members of our team work on a large variety of empirical objects and social worlds including formal (hospitals, companies, courts, administrative bodies, research labs) and less formal organizations (such as professional federations), markets, social networks or groups of users and experts (in healthcare, for instance).

See the List of team members.

This team is led by Séverine Louvel since September 2022.

Previous team managers: Thierry Delpeuch (from September 2018 to August 2022), Gilles Bastin (from September 2016 to August 2018)

Contact: regulationsumrpacte.fr (regulations[at]umrpacte[dot]fr)

Research Thematics

Research by the Regulations team covers four main topics:

Public action (sectoral approaches to public policy; norms and deviance; relations between administrators and administrated).
Markets and productive organizations (sociology of markets; cooperative economy; organizations; work).
Media and cultural ecologies (sociology of the arts, of audiences and the media).
Learning, knowledge and society (study of science and technology; epistemology and methodology of social sciences).

Animation

Team members meet on Fridays for a regular seminar from 12pm to 2pm. Seminar sessions alternate between presentations of key publications by Régulations members (notably monographs and collective works), discussions of articles in progress, and exchanges on research practices (in 2023-2024, one session focused on the use of bibliometrics in literature reviews; another was organized jointly with the Governance team on feedback to respondents). Finally, two sessions a year are devoted to doctoral days (presentation by 2nd-year doctoral students and above of the progress of their work, discussion of a text presenting this progress by a tenured researcher).

Other thematic seminar cycles are organized in the same time slot or at other times:

Public action

The public action seminar brings together the axis' researchers and doctoral students for 6 to 10 sessions a year.Since 2023, it has been led by Thierry Delpeuch and Yves Montouroy. Two session formats alternate: collective examination of current or recent work produced by a member of the group; lectures by outside guests. In 2023-2024, the seminar focused on the theme of collaborative public action, in connection with a workshop organized as part of the AFSP 2024 congress in Grenoble. The participants are currently working on publishing a dossier on this theme in the journal Droit et Société. The seminar also collaborates with IPPA, and some members regularly take part in the IPPA Winter School organized each year in the Grenoble region.

More (in french)

Digital health, health data

The aim of this seminar cycle is to contribute to the growing momentum of sociological research into the “digital shift” in healthcare. It seeks to shed light on the transformations brought about by the production, maintenance, uses and various forms of valorization - observed or hoped for - of healthcare data and the digital devices that generate them.

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Economy and society

The “Economy and Society” seminar aims to discuss the main frameworks for sociological analysis of economic facts. It is designed to be an open forum for exchanges between economic sociologists, economists, historians, anthropologists and others. It is structured into 3 types of sessions: writing workshops, book presentations, and presentations of recent work by Pacte's young researchers.

Researchers from the Régulations team participate in the organization of inter-team seminars:

Blog SocioGre

Team members also contribute to the SocioGre blog, which combines teaching and research activities. It also serves as a forum for scientific events, and is currently the focus of a project entitled “Sociologie de Grenoble”.

Enseignement

Members of the Regulations team teach in several Master's courses at the Université Grenoble Alpes. Here is a list of M2 dissertation topics for which you can contact them:

Cholez Céline: Professional career and health: analysis of the effects of health events on working life / Industrie 4.0: towards new distributions of man/machine work? / Seconde vie des objets modernes: analyse des filières de récupération/réparation/réutilisation des équipements électroniques (mobiles, tablettes, etc.).

Thierry Delpeuch: Sociologies of law, justice, police, security policies, international circulation of ideas and standards.

Julien Bertrand: sociology of socialization, sport, childhood, professional socialization, soccer.

Simon Godard: international organizations; labor movement; transnational circulation of economic ideas; Eastern Europe

Jean Finez: sociology of markets, sociology of prices, economics of sexuality (more specifically, economics of sexuality on the Internet), platform capitalism, transportation.

Cherry Schrecker: Hospitalization, health, dying. History of sociology, history and memory of educational institutions.

Claire Dupuy: Comparative analysis of public policy, citizens and public policy, regionalization, Europeanization, education policy, social policy.

Sidonie Naulin: Sociology of markets, work, careers, professi

Research projects (in French)

Photo ancienne, 2 policiers encadrent une vieille dame, années 20

Cycles de Séminaire

Séminaire Régulations