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Les pingouins ne sauveront pas la banquise, 2026
Mélusine Boon-Falleur, JC Lattès, 224 p. 
This book explores the gap between widespread awareness of the climate crisis and the persistent lack of action. Drawing on behavioral and cognitive sciences, it argues that ecological inaction is driven less by individual traits than by structural factors such as economic incentives, social norms, and the built environment. It offers practical insights into how changing these “rules of the game” can help foster collective engagement and accelerate the ecological transition.

The Police, Activists, and Knowledge: The Struggle Against Racialized Policing in France, 2026
Magda Boutros, Stanford University Press
Over recent years in France, police brutality, racial profiling, and police impunity have become central issues in public and political debate. Magda Boutros examines the social movements that brought these concerns to the forefront and analyzes how they reshaped discussions of policing and inequality. 

Énergie et inégalités : Une histoire politique, 2025
Lucas Chancel, Seuil, 448 p.
The history of energy cannot be reduced to its technical dimension or to the sum of past political choices. It points instead to a diversity of possible futures, where decoupling energy consumption, material resources, and prosperity is inseparable from the question of social justice.

Le Fil invisible du capital. Déchiffrer les mécanismes de l'exploitation, 2025
Ulysse Lojkine, La Découverte, 256 p.
The book sheds light on the inner workings of contemporary capitalism by addressing simple yet unsettling questions: who really works for whom, and who decides for whom? By tracing the often invisible mechanisms of exploitation in the age of global value chains and finance, it offers insights to help readers understand inequalities and imagine large-scale forms of emancipation.

Social Life during Covid-19 in France, Germany, Italy and the UK,  2025
Ettore Recchi, Elias Naumann et al. (editors), Palgrave Macmillan, 282 p.
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social life across four major European countries. Drawing on high-quality longitudinal data, it investigates how personal, work, and political lives evolved during and after the pandemic, with particular focus on inequalities based on gender, age, and socio-economic status. 

Discriminations, 2025
Mirna Safi, PUF, 334 p. 
Why do forms of discrimination – unequal treatment based on criteria such as origin, gender, or sexual orientation – persist in democratic countries that are nonetheless committed to equal opportunities? How can we measure their scale, and can we make sense of the mechanisms that underpin them? What tools are available to combat them? 

La théorie féministe au défi du handicap, 2025
Célia Bouchet, Mathéa Boudinet, Maryam Koushyar Soucasse, and Gaëlle Larrieu coordinated this collection of seminal Anglo-American texts, published by Cambourakis. 224 p. 

La peine et le plaisir, 2025
Hugues Lagrange offers a new, carefully argued reflection on the ailments of the twenty‑first century – anxiety, depression, addiction, obesity – which may stem from an imbalance between heritage and modernity. He asks whether esteem might lie at the heart of the problem. PUF, 325 p.

L'emprise scolaire, 2024
Marie Duru-Bellat et François Dubet

Le désir est un sport de combat, 2024
Rébecca Lévy-Guillain

Handbook of Human Mobility and Migration, 2024
Ettore Recchi, Mirna Safi (Ed.)

A l'école primaire catholique, 2023
Emilie Grisez

Policy Evaluation: Methods and Approaches, 2023
Anne Revillard (dir.)

La conversion écologique des français, 2023
Philippe Coulangeon, Maël Ginsburger et al.

Portraits de travailleuses handicapées, 2022
Mathéa Boudinet, Anne Revillard (dir.)

Sociologie de l'école (6e ed.), 2022
Agnès Van Zanten, Marie Duru-Bellat, Géraldine Farges

L'illusion de la démocratie numérique, 2022
Jen Schradie

Classes médias no Brasil..., 2021
Adalberto Carodoso, Edmond Préceille

Culture de masse et société de classes, 2021
Philippe Coulangeon

Introduction aux études sur le genre, 2020
Anne Revillard et al.

Des droits vulnérables, 2020
Anne Revillard

L'école peut-elle sauver la démocratie ?, 2020
Marie Duru-Bellat (avec François Dubet)

Les maladies du bonheur, 2020
Hugues Lagrange

Le mérite contre la justice (2° ed.), 2019
Marie Duru-Bellat

The Revolution That Wasn’t. How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives, 2019
Jen Schradie

Handicap et travail, 2019
Anne Revillard

Everyday Europe, 2019
E. Recchi et al.

Les enfants d'immigrés à l'école, 2018
Mathieu Ichou

Sociologie de l'école (5e éd), 2018
M. Duru-Bellat, G. Farges, A. van Zanten

Le plafond de verre et l'État, 2017
C. Marry et al.

La tyrannie du genre, 2017
Marie Duru-Bellat

Les batailles du dimanche, 2017
Laurent Lesnard, Jean-Yves Boulin

Génération Low-Cost : Itinéraires de jeunes migrants intra-européens, 2017
Aurore Flipo

Wages, Bonuses and Appropriation of Profit in the Financial Industry, 2016
Olivier Godechot

Dictionnaire de l'éducation (2e ed), 2017
Agnès van Zanten, Patrick Rayou

La cause des femmes dans l'Etat. Une comparaison France-Québec, 2016
Anne Revillard

La ségrégation urbaine, 2016
Marco Oberti, Edmond Préteceille

10 propositions pour changer d'école, 2015
François Dubet, Marie Duru-Bellat

L'Etat des droits : politique des droits et pratiques des institutions, 2015
Pierre-Yves Baudot et Anne Revillard

Mobile Europe. The Theory and Practice of Free Movement in the EU, 2015
Ettore Recchi

Elites, Privilege and Excellence, 2015
Agnès van Zanten, Stephen J. Ball, Brigitte Darchy-Koechlin (eds)

Enfants de couples mixtes. Liens sociaux et identités, 2015
Anne Unterreiner

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