Cogito n°4

Discover the fourth issue and its feature story on new research on education and inequalities.
A variety of topics is also explored: the evolution of the production designer’s trade; what the rich think of the poor; how the market for generic medicines formed; the new orientations of economic science, etc., as well as profiles of two recent PhD graduates awarded for their theses and an odd data relative to the French democracy.

Focus : Education & inequalities

• Introduction: new research, new methods
• Learning to read: encouraging family reading to reduce inequalities
• Do foreign pupils bring down middle school results?
• The spatial dimensions of educational inequalities
• Understanding inequalities in higher education steering

In Folio: Recent Publications

• Poverty seen from wealthy neighborhoods
• Is it useful to work on Sundays?
• The new paths of economic science
• How generic drugs have changed our healthcare system
• The History of the World is Asian. Another vision of the 20th century
• God is not dead. He’s in politics
• Believing and making others believe. Political uses of faith
• Europe: an open history
• The effects of economic conditions on the sorting of jobs and workers
• To describe law is to transform it

Kick-off: new contracts

• The “Young Christian Workers Movement”, at the forefront of social activism
• Creating illusion. Spotlight on the production designers
• Understanding the Mediterranean salt giant through multidisciplinary research
• Researchers are joining forces to better study the economics of housing
• Evaluating administrative simplification in higher education and research
• The integration of ethnic and immigrant minorities: sharing knowledge

Rising stars: young researchers

• Mediation: a key tool for pacification, Milena Dieckhoff
• What has become of slum children?, Margot Delon

Unexpected: Odd data

• Lawmaking: a spurt of acceleration

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